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Taking scientific practice as its starting point  this book charts the complex territory of
models used in science. It examines what scientific models are and what their function is.
Reliance on models is pervasive in science  and scientists often need to construct models in
order to explain or predict anything of interest at all. The diversity of kinds of models one
finds in science - ranging from toy models and scale models to theoretical and mathematical
models - has attracted attention not only from scientists  but also from philosophers 
sociologists  and historians of science. This has given rise to a wide variety of case studies
that look at the different uses to which models have been put in specific scientific contexts.
By exploring current debates on the use and building of models via cutting-edge examples drawn
from physics and biology  the book provides broad insight into the methodology of modelling in
the natural sciences. It pairs specific arguments with introductory material relating to the
ontology and the function of models  and provides some historical context to the debates as
well as a sketch of general positions in the philosophy of scientific models in the process.

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