NOWAK, MODELS, AND THE LESSONS OF NEO-KANTIANISM

• Authors: Turner Stephen
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Models are the coin of the realm in current philosophy of science, as they are in science itself, having replaced laws and theories as the primary strategy. Logical Positivism tried to erase the older neo-Kantian distinction between ideal constructions and reality. It returns in the case of models. Nowak’s concept of idealization provided an alternative account of this issue. It construed model application as concretizations of hypotheses which improve by accounting for exceptions. This appears to account for physical law. But it raises the problem of uniqueness: is the result unique, as physical law should be? Neo-Kantianism failed this test. Its solutions were circular justifications for claims of uniqueness. Nowak inherited the problem without resolving it.

Keywords

EN

IDEALIZATION; LESZEK NOWAK; MODELS; NEO-KANTIANISM; POZNAŃ SCHOOL OF METHODOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 30
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 165 – 170

Contributors

author

Turner Stephen

• Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33620, United States

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7538-0533

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30208