Modeling: Gateway to the Unknown: A Work by Rom Harré

Daniel Rothbart (Eds.)9780444514646, 0444514643

Edited by Daniel Rothbart of George Mason University in Virginia, this book is a collection of Rom Harre’s work on modeling in science (particularly physics and psychology). In over 28 authored books and 240 articles and book chapters, Rom Harre of Georgetown University in Washington, DC is a towering figure in philosophy, linguistics, and social psychology. He has inspired a generation of scholars, both for the ways in which his research is carried out and his profound insights. For Harre, the stunning discoveries of research demand a kind of thinking that is found in the construction and control of models. Iconic modeling is pivotal for representing real-world structures, explaining phenomena, manipulating instruments, constructing theories, and acquiring data.This volume in the new Elsevier book series Studies in Multidisciplinarity includes major topics on the structure and function of models, the debates over scientific realism, explanation through analogical modeling, a metaphysics for physics, the rationale for experimentation, and modeling in social encounters.

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Table of contents :
Content:
General introduction
Pages vii-xiii
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The structure and function of models introduction
Pages 1-2

Chapter one Iconic models Original Research Article
Pages 3-19

Chapter two Formal models Original Research Article
Pages 21-28

Chapter three Properties and images Original Research Article
Pages 29-45

Policy realism introduction
Pages 47-48

Chapter four Model making and the deffence of realism Original Research Article
Pages 49-61

Chapter five Models and the realism debates Original Research Article
Pages 63-74

Scientific explanation introduction
Pages 75-82

Chapter six Theory-families Original Research Article
Pages 83-98

Chapter seven Creativity in science Original Research Article
Pages 99-113

Chapter eight Metaphors as the expression of models Original Research Article
Pages 115-124

Chapter nine Models as rhetorical devices Original Research Article
Pages 125-137

A Metaphysics for physics introduction
Pages 139-146

Chapter ten Modeling in quantum field theory Original Research Article
Pages 147-162

Chapter eleven A dynamic model for space and time Original Research Article
Pages 163-174

A metaphysics for experiments introduction
Pages 175-189

Chapter twelve Apparatus as models in the physical sciences Original Research Article
Pages 191-206

Chapter thirteen Reinterpreting psychological experiments Original Research Article
Pages 207-208

The ethogenic point of view in social science introduction
Pages 209-219

Chapter fourteen Social action as drama Original Research Article
Pages 221-234

Chapter fifteen Conversation as source model for human sciences Original Research Article
Pages 235-242

Chapter sixteen AI as hybrid model making Original Research Article
Pages 243-250

References Original Research Article
Pages 251-257

Subject Index
Pages 259-260