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Leveraging distortions: explanation, idealization, and universality in science
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press (2021)
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An original argument about how scientific models often times distort reality rather than accurately reflect it. And it's this distortion that often gives scientific models their epistemic power.Author's Profile
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