caa a22 4500 463205529 CHVBK 20180405153125.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11191-006-9001-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11191-006-9001-6 Portides Demetris Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus, Kallipoleos 75, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus aut The Relation between Idealisation and Approximation in Scientific Model Construction [Elektronische Daten] [Demetris Portides] Abstract.: The notions of ‘idealisation' and ‘approximation' are strongly linked to the question of ‘how our theories represent the phenomena in their scope'. Although there is no consensus amongst Philosophers on the nature of the process of idealisation and how it affects theoretical representation, at the level of science education much can be gained from the insights of existing philosophical analyses. Traditionally, teaching methodologies treat the observed divergence between theoretical predictions and experimental data by appealing to the more common-sensical notion of ‘approximation'. The use of the latter notion, however, to explicate discrepancies between theory and experiment obscures the theory/experiment relation. It does so, I argue, because from the viewpoint of scientific modelling ‘approximation' either depends upon or piggybacks on ‘idealisation'. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Science & Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 16/7-8(2007-08-01), 699-724 0926-7220 16:7-8<699 2007 16 11191 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-006-9001-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-006-9001-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Portides Demetris Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus, Kallipoleos 75, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science & Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 16/7-8(2007-08-01), 699-724 0926-7220 16:7-8<699 2007 16 11191 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer