Simulation and similarity : using models to understand the world / Michael Weisberg.

'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, 1976-
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Series:Oxford studies in philosophy of science.
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Uniform Title:Simulation and similarity (Online)