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Toy Models, Dispositions, and the Power to Explain
Two recent contributions have discussed, and disagreed, over whether so-called toy models that attempt to represent dispositions have …
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Representing Non-Actual Targets?
Models typically have actual, existing, targets. However, some models are viewed as having non-actual targets. I argue that this …
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Hamilton's rule: a non-causal explanation?
The explanatory power of Hamilton’s rule, the main explanatory principle of social evolution theory, is an ongoing subject of …
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Factive inferentialism and the puzzle of model-based explanation
Highly idealized models may serve various epistemic functions, notably explanation, in virtue of representing the world. Inferentialism …
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How-possibly explanations in economics: anything goes?
The recent literature on economic models has rejected the traditional requirement that their epistemic value necessary depended on them …
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How could models possibly provide how-possibly explanations?
One puzzle concerning highly idealized models is whether they explain. Some suggest they provide so-called ‘how-possibly explanations’. …
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Understanding does not depend on (causal) explanation
One can find in the literature two sets of views concerning the relationship between understanding and explanation: that one …
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Non-causal understanding with economic models: the case of general equilibrium
How can we use models to understand real phenomena if models misrepresent the very phenomena we seek to understand? Some accounts …
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