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11 - Robustness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2018

Eric Winsberg
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University of South Florida
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Levins, Richard. 1966. “The Strategy of Model Building in Population Biology,” American Scientist. The original paper where the idea of model robustness was introduced.Google Scholar
Orzack, Steven Hecht and Sober, Elliott. 1993. “A Critical Assessment of Levins’s the Strategy of Model Building in Population Biology (1966),” The Quarterly Review of Biology. The paper in which Orzack and Sober argue that Levins’ idea is unworkable.Google Scholar
Lloyd, Elisabeth A. 2009. “I – Elisabeth A. Lloyd: Varieties of Support and Confirmation of Climate Models,” in Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume. Lloyd’s first argument in favor of using the philosophical literature on robustness analysis to understand how climate scientists use model ensembles to support climate hypothesis.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Parker, Wendy. 2011. “When Climate Models Agree: The Significance of Robust Model Predictions,” Philosophy of Science. Parker here argues against the confirmatory value of model robustness in climate science. The paper goes through a variety of ways of understanding robustness arguments and argues that none of them are applicable in climate science.Google Scholar
Lloyd, Elisabeth. 2015. “Model Robustness as a Confirmatory Virtue: The Case of Climate Science,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. Lloyd revisits the question of the confirmatory value of robustness in climate science.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schupbach, Jonah N. 2016. “Robustness Analysis as Explanatory Reasoning,” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. A clear and cogent argument for understanding robustness (both of the model and experimental variety) in the manner that I have defended in this chapter. A must-read for anyone interested in robustness analysis.Google Scholar

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  • Robustness
  • Eric Winsberg, University of South Florida
  • Book: Philosophy and Climate Science
  • Online publication: 19 April 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108164290.012
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  • Robustness
  • Eric Winsberg, University of South Florida
  • Book: Philosophy and Climate Science
  • Online publication: 19 April 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108164290.012
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  • Robustness
  • Eric Winsberg, University of South Florida
  • Book: Philosophy and Climate Science
  • Online publication: 19 April 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108164290.012
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