Simulation and similarity using models to understand the world

'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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Main Author: Weisberg, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2013, c2013
Series:Oxford studies in philosophy of science / Oxford studies in philosophy of science
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