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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Volume 85, Issue 3, Pages 335-359Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/697745
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- European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [H2020-ERC-2014-CoG 647272]
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The goal of this article is to address the problem of inconsistent models and the challenge it poses for perspectivism. I analyze the argument, draw attention to some hidden premises behind it, and deflate them. Then I introduce the notion of perspectival models as a distinctive class of modeling practices whose primary function is exploratory. I illustrate perspectival modeling with two examples taken from contemporary high-energy physics at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which are designed to show how a plurality of seemingly incompatible models (suitably understood) is methodologically crucial to advance the realist quest in cutting-edge areas of scientific inquiry.
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