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SUMMARY:The principle of stability - Sam Fletcher (University of Minnesota
 )
DTSTART:20171025T120000Z
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DESCRIPTION:How can inferences from idealized models to the phenomena they
  \nrepresent be justified when those models deliberately distort the \nphe
 nomena?  Pierre Duhem considered just this problem\, arguing that \ninfere
 nces and explanations from mathematical models of phenomena to \nreal phys
 ical applications must also be demonstrated to be approximately \ncorrect 
 when the (idealized) assumptions of the model are only \napproximately tru
 e.  Despite being little discussed among philosophers\, \nmathematicians a
 nd physicists both contemporaneous with and subsequent \nto Duhem took up 
 this challenge (if only sometimes implicitly)\, yielding \na novel and ric
 h mathematical theory of stability with epistemological \nconsequences.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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