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Reconstructing reality : models, mathematics, and simulations / Margaret Morrison.
LIBRA Q158.5 .M667 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morrison, Margaret, 1954- author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in philosophy of science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Mathematical models.
- Science.
- Physics--Mathematical models.
- Physics.
- Mathematics--Philosophy.
- Mathematics.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 334 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Mathematics, Explanation, and Understanding
- 1 Abstraction and Idealisation: Understanding via Models 15
- 2 From the Pure to the Concrete: How Mathematics Yields Physical Information 50
- Part 2 Where Models Meet the World: Problems and Perspectives
- 3 More Than Make-Believe: Fictions, Models, and Reality 85
- 4 Mediated Knowledge: Representation and the Theory-Model Axis 119
- 5 Making the Best of It: Inconsistent versus Complementary Models 156
- Part III Computer Simulation: The New Reality
- 6 Why Materiality Is Not Enough: Models, Measurement, and Computer Simulation 199
- 7 Legitimating Simulation: Methodological Issues of Verification and Validation 248
- 8 Without It There's Nothing: The Necessity of Simulation in the Higgs Search 287.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199380275
- 0199380279
- OCLC:
- 879642391
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