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7Proceedings of the EENPS 2018 Conference in Bratislava: IntroductionFilozofia Nauki 27 (4): 5-6. 2019.
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9Proceedings of the EENPS 2018 Conference in Bratislava: IntroductionFilozofia Nauki 5-6. forthcoming.
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32On Understanding Through Agent-based ModelsBalkan Journal of Philosophy 9 (1): 53-62. 2017.The aim of this paper is to argue that it is more plausible to approach understanding from a special type of model—the ABS/IBMs models—as a non-explanatory form following some suggestions advanced by Lipton. I will first look to the type of explanation that some authors claimed is disclosed by these models: Weisberg’s analysis of IBMs in ecology and Grüne-Yanoff’s analysis of the Anasazi model. I argue that their analyses fail to show that these models qualify as explanatory understandings. This…Read more
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25Explanation Through Scientific Models: Reframing the Explanation TopicLogos and Episteme 2 (2): 177-189. 2011.Once a central topic of philosophy of science, scientific explanation attracted less attention in the last two decades. My aim in this paper is to argue for a newsort of approach towards scientific explanation. In a first step I propose a classification of different approaches through a set of dichotomic characteristics. Taken into account the tendencies in actual philosophy of science I see a local, dynamic and non-theory driven approach as a plausible one. Considering models as bearers of expl…Read more
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25Explaining by using artificial societiesEuropean Journal of Science and Theology 8 (3). 2012.Computational models have an increasing impact in social and historical sciences. In this paper, I will focus on a specific type of modelling developed in computational social sciences, an agent-based model. My inquiry will aim to identify the sort of explanatory virtues that such a model could have. I will discuss the suggested possibility of causal explanations but also the recent proposal advanced by Grüne-Yanoff that sees them as potential functional explanations. In the last part I shall ma…Read more
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2SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING-VIEWS FROM PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCERevue Roumaine de Philosophie 56 (2). 2012.Scientific understanding was a rather neglected topic in philosophy of science, despite its association with the well-known explanation subject. The classical position on explanation considered an approach on understanding to be redundant on one on explanation. Besides, the dominant view promoted by the unificationist approach on explanation conceived understanding as a “global affair”, as Friedman called it, of scientific knowledge. The recent developments in philosophy of science redirected th…Read more
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion
PhD, 2009
Bucharest, Romania
Areas of Specialization
General Philosophy of Science |