A functional boost to perspectivism on the DEKI playground. June 2025. Presented at the CELFIS+DFT center of the University of Bucharestabstract bibtex This paper proposes a functional approach to ‘perspectival realism’—especially in its most recent form, developed by M. Massimi (Massimi 2016, 2018, 2019; Massimi and McCoy 2020) and P. Teller (Teller 2018, 2020)—by providing a functional role of perspectives in the ‘representational success’ of scientific models. The paper promotes a probabilistic account of the role perspectives play in the representational function of models and, as part of the argument, addresses two issues: (a) the convergence of models based on different perspectives and (b) the role of perspectives in the inference from ensembles of models. We offer an example inspired by a computational model. In general, this paper connects better perspectives to the representational function of models and promotes perspectival realism as a promising framework to discuss computational models in a scientific realism framework.
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abstract = {This paper proposes a functional approach to ‘perspectival realism’—especially in its most recent form, developed by M. Massimi (Massimi 2016, 2018, 2019; Massimi and McCoy 2020) and P. Teller (Teller 2018, 2020)—by providing a functional role of perspectives in the ‘representational success’ of scientific models. The paper promotes a probabilistic account of the role perspectives play in the representational function of models and, as part of the argument, addresses two issues: (a) the convergence of models based on different perspectives and (b) the role of perspectives in the inference from ensembles of models. We offer an example inspired by a computational model. In general, this paper connects better perspectives to the representational function of models and promotes perspectival realism as a promising framework to discuss computational models in a scientific realism framework.},
language = {1. Philosophy of science},
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note = {Presented at the CELFIS+DFT center of the University of Bucharest},
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