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Simulation and similarity : using models to understand the world /

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'Simulation and Similarity' provides an account of modelling and idealization in modern scientific practice, focusing on concrete, mathematical, and computational models. The book has three main themes: the nature of models, the practice of modelling, and nature of the relationship between...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weisberg, Michael, 1976-
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Series:Oxford studies in philosophy of science.
Subjects:
Science > Mathematical models > Philosophy.
Sciences > Modèles mathématiques > Philosophie.
Physical Sciences & Mathematics.
Sciences - General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Three kinds of models
  • The anatomy of models
  • Fictions and folk ontology
  • Target-directed modeling
  • Idealization
  • Modeling without a specific target
  • An account of similarity
  • Robustness analysis and idealization
  • Conclusion: the practice of modeling.