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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?
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.
28 lis 2012 · This paper aims (a) to provide characterizations of realism and instrumentalism that are philosophically interesting and applicable to economics; and (b) to defend instrumentalism against realism as a methodological stance in economics.
Deidealization is crucial for different kinds of attempts to apply models to the world by empirical use with statistics, in designing experiments, or in mak- — ing arguments about concrete events. Such attempts unquestionably involve deidealization.
1 sty 2013 · I argue that understanding idealization as a conceptual act that can be distinguished into three kinds: isolation, stabilization and decomposition is a promising way for making sense of many important characteristics of economic modeling.
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).
1 gru 2021 · This paper defends the viability of de-idealization strategies in economic modeling against recent criticism. De-idealization occurs when an idealized assumption of a theoretical model is replaced with a more realistic one.
