The strategy of model-based science
The strategy of model-based science
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DOI：
10.1007/s10539-006-9054-6
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发表时间：
2006-11-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Godfrey-Smith, Peter
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作者：
Godfrey-Smith, Peter
我的标题指的是理查德·莱文斯关于人口生物学模型的著名论文(1966)。在这里，莱文斯介绍了他对不同类型的建模的三种区分，并介绍了一套关于限制和指导科学工作的权衡的更基本的想法。对于莱文斯来说，这些权衡源于三个不同的理论目标之间的关系：现实主义、精确度和概括性。
My title refers to Richard Levins’ famous paper on models in population biology (1966). Here Levins presented his three-way distinction between kinds of modelbuilding, and also introduced a set of more fundamental ideas about trade-offs that constrain and guide scientific work. For Levins, these trade-offs derive from the relationships between three different theoretical goals: realism, precision, and generality.