Making Sense of Robustness Through the Modal Understanding Framework

• Main Author: O'Reilly, Grayson
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks at University of Montana 2020
• Subjects: Elliott; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/gsrc/2020/332/1; https://scholarworks.umt.edu/context/gsrc/article/1726/type/native/viewcontent/oreilly_grayson_oral.pptx

I track the robustness discourse beginning with Richard Levins’ influential 1966 article followed by Steven Orzack and Elliott Sober’s response, and then highlight contemporary philosophers in order to demonstrate the problematic nature of robustness. Through this discourse I arrive at a clear pictu...