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What are some examples of alternative models David? The main one I can think of right now is anthropology, which I suppose is kinda stamp-collecty.
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Mark Wilson is a big philosophy of science guy and draws from the history of engineering as more idiomatic of how science works (i would say he thinks computational problems as being more obvious here)https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/physics-avoidance-essays-in-conceptual-strategy/ …
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It's worse. Look at Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend, Popper, etc.: they're all on about Galileo and Newton - that is, ancient physics - as revealing of what (all of) science Really Is.
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Yes, Peter Godfrey-Smith makes this point in detail in _Theory and Reality_; and explores how molbio differs in his _Philosophy of Biology_. The high-energy physics vs molbio contrast is also made in (rather too much) detail in Knorr Cetina’s _Epistemic Cultures_.
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I'd contend the model science is chemistry but the point stays similar.
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