Models and Inferences in Science

1. Modeling and Inferring in Science
Emiliano Ippoliti, Thomas Nickles, Fabio Sterpetti

2. On ‘The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences’
Sorin Bangu

3. Fast and Frugal Heuristics at Research Frontiers
Thomas Nickles

4. Scientific Realism, the Semantic View and Evolutionary Biology
Fabio Sterpetti

5. Models of the Skies
Emily Grosholz

6. Models of Science and Models in Science
Carlo Cellucci

7. Mechanistic Models and Modeling Disorders
Raffaella Campaner

8. Chaos and Stochastic Models in Physics: Ontic and Epistemic Aspects
Sergio Caprara, Angelo Vulpiani

9. Ways of Advancing Knowledge. A Lesson from Knot Theory and Topology
Emiliano Ippoliti

10. Models, Idealisations, and Realism
Juha Saatsi

11. Modelling Non-empirical Confirmation
Richard Dawid

12. Mathematics as an Empirical Phenomenon, Subject to Modeling
Reuben Hersh

13. Scientific Models Are Distributed and Never Abstract
Lorenzo Magnani

14. The Use of Models in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Kahindo Kamau, Emily Grosholz

Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Computational Intelligence, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Epistemology, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics