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Model Underdetermination

Model Underdetermination is a type of epistemic indeterminacy in scientific theory choice, wherein distinct models are empirically equivalent in that they account for the same observational data, yet differ in their structural assumptions, thereby precluding decisive selection among them based solely on empirical evidence.

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Underdetermination Of Scientific TheoryUnderdetermination Of Theory By Data

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Publications

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Empirical Equivalence and Underdetermination

Larry Laudan, Jarrett Leplin · The Journal of Philosophy · 1991 · 505 citations

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Underdetermination, Realism, and Reason

John Earman · Midwest Studies in Philosophy · 1993 · 143 citations

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Tensions Between Scientific Judgement and Statistical Model Selection

Danielle Navarro · Computational Brain & Behavior · 2018 · 137 citations · Full text

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Three Problems for the Mutual Manipulability Account of Constitutive Relevance in Mechanisms

B Leuridan · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 2011 · 129 citations · Full text

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Instrumentalism, Parsimony, and the Akaike Framework

Elliott Sober · Philosophy of Science · 2002 · 121 citations

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Authors

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  1. JL
    Jarrett Leplin

    University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States

    3 publications · 629 citations

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  2. LL
    Larry Laudan

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    3 publications · 629 citations

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  3. PA
    Pablo Acuña

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

    2 publications · 70 citations

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  4. DN
    Danielle Navarro

    The University of Adelaide, Australia

    2 publications · 195 citations

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  5. AK
    André Kukla

    University of Toronto, Canada

    2 publications · 203 citations

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Institutions

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  1. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    195 citations

  2. University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    Greensboro, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    248 citations

  3. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    68 citations

  4. University of California, Riverside

    Riverside, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    92 citations

  5. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    31 citations

  6. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

    Onna, Japan

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  7. Sciences, Normes, Démocratie

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    76 citations

  8. University of Bonn

    Bonn, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    20 citations

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  1. Synthese

    8 publications · 239 citations

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  2. Journal for General Philosophy of Science

    5 publications · 143 citations

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  3. Analysis

    4 publications · 327 citations

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  4. Philosophy of Science

    4 publications · 245 citations

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