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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Volume 81, Issue 5, Pages 756-769Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/678257
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Experimental modeling in biology involves the use of living organisms (not necessarily so-called model organisms) in order to model or simulate biological processes. I argue here that experimental modeling is a bona fide form of scientific modeling that plays an epistemic role that is distinct from that of ordinary biological experiments. What distinguishes them from ordinary experiments is that they use what I call in vivo representations, where one kind of causal process is used to stand in for a physically different kind of process. I discuss the advantages of this approach in the context of evolutionary biology.
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