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SUMMARY:When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer - Ax
 el Gelfert (Technische Universität Berlin)
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:The transfer of scientific models across disciplinary boundari
 es has recently attracted a fair amount of interest from historians and ph
 ilosophers of science. Whether in the form of 'model templates' or the tra
 nsposition of whole 'modeling frameworks'\, model transfer has been variou
 sly credited with injecting new life into stagnant research programmes and
  recovering a (suitably qualified) notion of scientific progress. Approach
 ing this debate from an epistemological point of view\, I argue that the t
 ransfer of models carries with it considerable epistemic risks\, not least
  that of falling prey to what has been called the 'illusion of depth of un
 derstanding' in science.
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