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SUMMARY:Philosophy of Science Research Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Justifying Distortion: How Biologists Use Idealized Models to E
 xplain\nGuest speaker: Collin Rice\, Associate Professor of Philosophy\, B
 ryn Mawr College\n\nIt is typically assumed that science aims to tell us w
 hat the world is really like. However\, many scientific explanations make 
 essential use of idealized models that misrepresent or distort the real wo
 rld in a variety of ways. In this talk\, I use examples from ecology\, pop
 ulation genetics\, and cell biology to argue against various attempts to j
 ustify idealizations by showing that they are harmless distortions of irre
 levant features. Instead\, these cases suggest that we ought to characteri
 ze idealized models as providing holistically (i.e.\, pervasively) distort
 ed representations. I then argue that we can justify the use of these biol
 ogical models by identifying universal patterns that are stable across a r
 ange of real\, possible\, and model systems. This enables us to see how bi
 ologists can be so successful at using pervasively distorted models to exp
 lain real-world phenomena.\n\nFriday\, February 18\, 2022\n4 – 5:30 p.m.
  MST\n\nQuestions? Contact jeff.kasser@colostate.edu
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