Reckoning with Continuum Idealizations: Some Lessons from Soil Hydrology

Autor:	Travis Holmes
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Philosophy History History and Philosophy of Science
Zdroj:	Philosophy of Science. 89:319-336
ISSN:	1539-767X 0031-8248
DOI:	10.1017/psa.2021.30
Popis:	In scientific modeling, continuum idealizations bridge scales but at the cost of fundamentally misrepresenting the microstructure of the system. This engenders a mystery. If continuum idealizations are dispensable in principle, this de-problematizes their representational inaccuracy, since continuum properties reduce to lower-scale properties, but the mystery of how this reduction could be carried out endures. Alternatively, if continuum idealizations are indispensable in principle, this is consistent with their explanatory and predictive success but renders their representational inaccuracy mysterious. I argue for a deflationary solution, enlisting the applied scientific method of upscaling as demonstrated in a case from soil hydrology.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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