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Reconstructing reality : models, mathematics, and simulations /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in philosophy of science.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Series""; ""Reconstructing Reality""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I Mathematics, Explanation, and Understanding""; ""1 Abstraction and Idealisation:Â Understanding via Models""; ""2 From the Pure to the Concrete:Â How Mathematics Yields Physical Information""; ""Part II Where Models Meet the World:Â Problems and Perspectives""; ""3 More Than Make-Believe:Â Fictions, Models, and Reality""; ""4 Mediated Knowledge:Â Representation and the Theory-Model Axis""
- ""5 Making the Best of It: Inconsistent versus Complementary Models""""Part III Computer Simulation: The New Reality""; ""6 Why Materiality Is Not Enough: Models, Measurement, and Computer Simulation""; ""7 Legitimating Simulation: Methodological Issues of Verification and Validation""; ""8 Without It There�s Nothing: The Necessity of Simulation in the Higgs Search""; ""References""; ""Index""