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20 maj 2020 · 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?
While all three kinds of idealization can be found in scientific practice, they share enough in common that they can be characterized and studied in a unified way. The key is to focus not just on the practice and products of idealization, but on the goals governing and guiding it.
22 sty 2019 · We introduce work on epistemic value to the debate surrounding idealizations and understanding, arguing that idealizations qua falsehoods confer only non-epistemic value to understanding. We argue for this claim by criticizing the leading accounts of how idealizations provide understanding.
29 maj 2014 · This article discusses the role of idealization in economics. Nowak argues that while idealized models do enable understanding, removing idealizations from a model and replacing them with true structures would enhance the model’s explanatory power.
8 gru 2011 · Specifically, idealization occurs when we generate positive illusions by maximizing virtues and minimizing flaws. These illusions grow from our tendency to overlay our partners’ actual traits ...
1 sty 2020 · The following section includes examples of idealization taken from psychotherapy sessions. The first is taken from an interview with a woman who recently received a diagnosis of breast cancer. She gave the following answer when asked to share a story about her treating team:
In what follows, we analyze the processes of deidealization by drawing on examples from economics and the existing literature in the philosophy of economics on model application problems (e.g., Boumans 2005; Alexandrova 2006; Reiss 2008; Svetlova 2013).
