Idealization XIV: Models in Science

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Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Notes on Contributors

The Role of Models in Science: An Introduction

Part 1: Idealization: General Problems

1: On Fictions, Theoretical Entities, and Ideal Objects: Applying Zalta’s Abstract Objects Theory to Scientific Theories

2: The Inherent Type of Scienific Law, The Idealized Types of Scientific Law

3: On Deformational Modeling: Max Weber’s Concept of Idealization

4: On Reduction in the Idealizational Theory of Science: A Case Study of the Relationship between the Concept of Rational Act and the Concept of a Habitual-Rational Action

Part 2: Idealization in the Social Sciences

5: Idealization in Economics: A Structuralist View

6: Between Isolations and Constructions: Economic Models as Believable Worlds

7: The Fallacy of the Reification of Idealization in Economic Research

8: Strategies of Comparative Analysis in Historical Comparative Sociology: An Attempt at an Explication within the Conceptual Framework of the Idealizational Theory of Science

9: The Structure of Idealization in Noam Chomsky’s Generativist Theory

Part 3: Idealization in the Humanities

10: The Method of Idealization and Concretization on the Ground of Negativistic Unitarian Metaphysics

11: The Choice of the Principles of Justice in the Political Philosophy of John Rawls: An Idealizational Interpretation

12: Inductive Modeling and Discursive Idealization in Scenario Planning

13: Historical Narration in the Light of the Idealizational Theory of Science: A Recapitulation and Expansion