This Element offers an opinionated and selective introduction to philosophical issues concerning idealizations in physics, including the concept of and reasons for introducing idealization, ...

There’s a mob of people outside the courtroom. The door opens and everyone walks in. You find a seat. There’s a low hum of ...

Shouldn’t we encourage more accurate representations of history and also orient our idealizations of the past toward the present? Nostalgia for the present is a phenomenon defined by missing ...

Nostalgia seems harmless enough, and then someone starts earnestly — absurdly — glamorizing the Stone Age. “Damn can you imagine being a human during the paleolithic age,” tweeted a self ...

Jeffry L. Ramsey is interested in the use of models in the sciences, specifically models that are created through the use of approximations and idealizations. What sorts of explanations, confirmations ...

Societal messages about “how a good mother should be”, mixed with transgenerational expectations and rules, idealizations, feelings of loss, self-doubt and disbelief can make you feel ...

This peculiar editing approach frames these images as idealizations of a film that never was and could never be. They exist now only as the fantasies of an older and wiser man — one who perhaps ...

Weighing the political risks against the coping benefits of nostalgia, I wondered: Shouldn’t we encourage more accurate representations of history and also orient our idealizations of the past ...

Weighing the political risks against the coping benefits of nostalgia, I wondered: Shouldn’t we encourage more accurate representations of history and also orient our idealizations of the past toward ...

Weighing the political risks against the coping benefits of nostalgia, I wondered: Shouldn’t we encourage more accurate representations of history and also orient our idealizations of the past ...