Models, simulations, and representations
By: edited by Paul Humphreys and Cyrille Imbert
Series: Routledge studies in the philosophy of science -- 9
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780415891967; 9780203808412
Subjects: Science; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The productive tension : mechanisms vs. templates in modeling the phenomena / Tarja Knuuttila and Andrea Loettgers; title: Theories or models? : the case of algebraic quantum field theory / Tracy Lupher; title: Modeling and experimenting / Isabelle Peschard; title: Model dynamics : epistemological perspectives on science and its education / Michael Stoeltzner; title: Weak emergence and computer simulation / Mark Bedau; title: Agent-based modeling and the fallacies of individualism / Brian Epstein; title: Scientific models, simulation, and the experimenter's regress / Axel Gelfert; title: Simulation and the sense of understanding / Jaakko Kuorikoski; title: Models and simulations in brain experiments / Patrick Suppes; title: Representing with physical models / Ronald Giere; title: The truth of false idealizations in modeling / Uskali M?ki; title: Idealized models as inferentially veridical representations : a conceptual framework / Juha Saatsi; title: Formats of representation in scientific theorizing / Marion Vorms.