Simulation and Similarity: Using Models to Understand the World (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science) - Tapa blanda

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Weisberg, Michael

 
9780190265120: Simulation and Similarity: Using Models to Understand the World (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science)
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ISBN 10: 0190265124 ISBN 13: 9780190265120
Editorial: Oxford University Press, 2015

Sinopsis

In the 1950s, John Reber convinced many Californians that the best way to solve the state’s water shortage problem was to dam up the San Francisco Bay. Against massive political pressure, Reber’s opponents persuaded lawmakers that doing so would lead to disaster. They did this not by empirical measurement alone, but also through the construction of a model. Simulation and Similarity explains why this was a good strategy while simultaneously providing an account of modeling and idealization in modern scientific practice. Michael Weisberg focuses on concrete, mathematical, and computational models in his consideration of the nature of models, the practice of modeling, and nature of the relationship between models and real-world phenomena.

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Michael Weisberg is Department Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Editorial
Oxford University Press
Año de publicación
2015
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0190265124
ISBN 13 
9780190265120
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Número de páginas
212
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