Collin Rice, "Leveraging Distortions: Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Science" (MIT Press, 2021)
New Books in Philosophy
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The Universality Class Is a Class of Systems That Display Similar Behaviors
A universality class is just the class of systems that all display some pattern of behavior, despite their underlying physical differences. And so this gives us a way of not only thinking about how we might explain or understand why very different fluids and magnets and whatever system wants to show up in the real world. But also get a handle on why it is that they also display the same universal behaviors.
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