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Carte Simulation and Similarity Michael Weisberg

Simulation and Similarity

Using Models to Understand the World

Autor: Michael Weisberg
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Oxford University Press Inc
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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242.77 lei
In the 1950s, John Reber convinced many Californians that the best way to solve the state's water sh...

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Autor
Michael Weisberg
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2015
Pagini
212
EAN
9780190265120
ISBN
0190265124
Enbook ID
09320916
Editura
Oxford University Press Inc
Greutate
348
Dimensiuni
233 x 155 x 26

Descriere completă

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. In addition to a careful analysis of physical, computational, and mathematical models, Simulation and Similarity offers a novel account of the model/world relationship. Breaking with the dominant tradition, which favors the analysis of this relation through logical notions such as isomorphism, Weisberg instead presents a similarity-based account called weighted feature matching. This account is developed with an eye to understanding how modeling is actually practiced. Consequently, it takes into account the ways in which scientists' theoretical goals shape both the applications and the analyses of their models.

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