What are the COVID-19 models modeling (philosophically speaking)?

COVID-19 epidemic models raise important questions for science and philosophy of science. Here I provide a brief preliminary exploration of three: what kinds of predictions do epidemic models make, are they causal models, and how do different kinds of epidemic models differ in terms of what they rep...

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Autor principal: Fuller, Jonathan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7994354/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33770267
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00407-5
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spelling pubmed-79943542021-03-26 What are the COVID-19 models modeling (philosophically speaking)? Fuller, Jonathan Hist Philos Life Sci Notes & Comments COVID-19 epidemic models raise important questions for science and philosophy of science. Here I provide a brief preliminary exploration of three: what kinds of predictions do epidemic models make, are they causal models, and how do different kinds of epidemic models differ in terms of what they represent? Springer International Publishing 2021-03-26 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7994354/ /pubmed/33770267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00407-5 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7994354/
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