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Puzzled by Idealizations and Understanding Their Functions
Philosophy of the Social Sciences ( IF 0.984 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-20 , DOI: 10.1177/0048393120917637
Uskali Mäki 1, 2
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Idealization is ubiquitous in human cognition, and so is the inclination to be puzzled by it: what to make of ideal gas, infinitely large populations, homo economicus, perfectly just society, known to violate matters of fact? This is apparent in social science theorizing (from J. H. von Thünen, J. S. Mill, and Max Weber to Milton Friedman and Thomas Schelling), recent philosophy of science analyzing scientific modeling, and the debate over ideal and non-ideal theory in political philosophy (since John Rawls). I will offer a set of concepts and principles to improve transparency about the precise contents of idealizations (in terms of negligibility, applicability, tractability, and early-step status) and their distinct functions (such as contributing to minimal modeling, benchmark modeling, and how-possibly modeling).

中文翻译:

对理想化感到困惑并理解其功能

理想化在人类认知中无处不在,因此它也容易引起人们的困惑:理想气体,无限大的人口,同质的经济,完全公正的社会,该如何构成事实而闻名?这在社会科学理论化(从JH vonThünen,JS Mill和Max Weber到Milton Friedman和Thomas Schelling),最近的科学哲学分析科学建模以及政治哲学中关于理想和非理想理论的争论中都显而易见。约翰·罗尔斯(John Rawls)。我将提供一组概念和原则,以提高有关理想化确切内容(在可忽略性,适用性,易处理性和早期阶段状态方面)及其独特功能(例如对最小化建模,基准建模和如何进行建模)。
更新日期:2020-05-20
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