Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method

by Paul Humphreys

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Computational methods such as computer simulations, Monte Carlo methods, and agent-based modeling have become the dominant techniques in many areas of science. Extending Ourselves contains the first systematic philosophical account of these new methods, and how they require a different approach to scientific method. Paul Humphreys draws a parallel between the ways in which such computational methods have enhanced our abilities to mathematically model...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195158709

ISBN13:9780195158700

Release Date:July 2004

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:182 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"

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