Models and Inferences in Science

Modelling and Inferring in Science.- On 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics inthe Natural Sciences'.- Fast and Frugal Heuristicsat Research Frontiers.- ScientificRealism, the Semantic View and Evolutionary Biology.- Models of the Skies.- Models of Scienceand Models in Science.- Mechanistic Models andModeling Disorders.- Chaos and Stochastic Models in Physics.- Ways of Advancing Knowledge. A Lesson from Knot Theoryand Topology.- Models, Idealisations, and Realist Commitments.- Modelling Non-EmpiricalConfirmation.- Mathematics as an Empirical Phenomenon, Subject toModeling.- Scientific Models Are Distributed and Never Abstract. ANaturalistic Perspective.- The Use of Models in Petroleum and Natural GasEngineering.