Journal•ISSN: 0039-3681
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Elsevier BV
About: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Philosophy of science & Argument. It has an ISSN identifier of 0039-3681. Over the lifetime, 1986 publications have been published receiving 29581 citations.
Topics: Philosophy of science, Argument, Scientific realism, Western philosophy, Sociology of scientific knowledge
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TL;DR: In this article, a theoretically adequate definition of relative adaptedness is proposed, which differs from the standard philosophical models of scientific theories, and it is used to defend this differentiating feature and to show the inadequacy of certain views about the structure of science theories which purport to be con~plete.
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TL;DR: The authors distinguish between different types of trading zones by asking whether the collaboration is co-operative or coerced and whether the end-state is a heterogeneous or homogeneous culture, and they find that the voluntary development of a new language community, what they call an inter-language trading zone, represents only one of four possible configurations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the key characteristics of model organisms that make them a specific type of model within the contemporary life sciences, and conclude that model organisms are a specific subgroup of organisms that have been standardized to fit an integrative and comparative mode of research, and that it must be clearly distinguished from the broader class of experimental organisms.
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