THE MAIN FACES OF ROBUSTNESS
THE MAIN FACES OF ROBUSTNESS
Author(s): Giovanni Boniolo, Mattia Andreoletti, Federico Boem, Ratti RattiSubject(s): History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk i Fundacja Filozofia na Rzecz Dialogu
Keywords: robustness; representation; robustness of representations; representations of robustness; scientific terminology
Summary/Abstract: In the last decade, robustness has been extensively mentioned and discussed in biologyas well as in the philosophy of the life sciences. Nevertheless, from both fields,someone has affirmed that this debate has resulted in more semantic confusion than insemantic clearness. Starting from this claim, we wish to offer a sort of prima facie mapof the different usages of the term. In this manner we would intend to predispose a sortof “semantic platform” which could be exploited by those who wish to discuss or simplyuse it. We do this by starting from a core distinction between the robustness of representations,which is a philosophy of science issue, and the representations of robustness,which instead pertains to science. We illustrate our proposal with examples frombiology, physics and mathematics.
Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 157-172
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
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