Simulation and Similarity Using Models to Understand the World
Simulation and Similarity Using Models to Understand the World
- ISBN 13:
9780190265120
- ISBN 10:
0190265124
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/01/2015
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
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.