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Interdisciplinary model transfer and realism about physical analogySynthese 201 (2): 1-27. 2023.Model transfer is the scientific practice of taking a model which was initially applied in one particular kind of target system in some particular scientific domain and applying it to represent a novel target system in a novel scientific domain. This paper motivates a realist interpretation of empirically successful model transfers and the implications of such an interpretation for the metaphysics of science. The paper uses two examples of empirically successful model transfer, the first of whic…Read more
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Interventions and Counternomic ReasoningPhilosophy of Science 84 (5): 956-969. 2017.
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Counterpossible Non-vacuity in Scientific PracticeJournal of Philosophy 116 (1): 32-60. 2019.The longstanding philosophical orthodoxy on counterfactuals holds, in part, that counterfactuals with metaphysically impossible antecedents are indiscriminately vacuously true. Drawing on a number of examples from across scientific practice, I argue that science routinely treats counterpossibles as non-vacuously true and also routinely treats other counterpossibles as false. In fact, the success of many central scientific endeavors requires that counterpossibles can be non-vacuously true or fals…Read more
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Ideal Laws, Counterfactual Preservation, and the Analyses of LawhoodAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 98 (3): 574-589. 2020.
University of Virginia
PhD, 2019
New York, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
General Philosophy of Science |
Metaphysics |
Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
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Scientific Models |
Analogy in Science |
Idealization |
Explanation |
Laws of Nature |
Scientific Realism |