Models as Points of View: The Case of System Dynamics |
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Authors: | Margarita Vázquez Manuel Liz |
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Institution: | 1.Faculty of Philosophy,University of La Laguna,Tenerife,Spain |
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Abstract: | We propose an analysis of the notion of model as crucially related to the notion of point of view. A model in this sense would
always suggest a certain way of looking at a real system, a certain way of thinking about it and a certain way of acting upon
it. We focus on System Dynamics as a paradigmatic case with respect to many of the features and problems we can find in the
field of modelling and simulation. We analyse in detail some of those features. All of them would be present in many other
cases of construction and use of models. Furthermore, they would support the thesis that a model can be fruitfully understood
as offering a point of view capable of improving our own points of view over a certain system. The point of view offered by
the model could include both non-conceptual and conceptual contents, it would have a complex structure and behaviour, and
it would have direct consequences on the decisions made by the subjects adopting that point of view. |
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