Title Simulation : pragmatic construction of reality / edited by Johannes Lenhard, Günter Küppers, and Terry Shinn

Published Dordrecht : Springer, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 211 pages) : illustrations Series Sociology of the sciences yearbook ; v. 25 Sociology of the sciences ; v. 25. Contents Computer Simulation: Practice, Epistemology, and Social Dynamics; The Shape of Molecules to Come; From Representation to Production: Parsers and Parsing in Language Technology; Foundations for the Simulation of Ecosystems; Models, Models Everywhere; From Hierarchical to Network-Like Integration: A Revolution of Modeling Style in Computer-Simulation; The Difference Between Answering a 'Why' Question and Answering a 'How Much' Question; Struggle Between Specificity and Generality: How Do Infectious Disease Models Become a Simulation Platform? Handshaking Your Way to the Top: Simulation at the NanoscaleLocating the Dry Lab on the Lab Map; Simulation Uncertainty and the Challenge of Postnormal Science; When is Simulation a Research Technology? Practices, Markets, and Lingua Franca Summary This book examines the historical roots and evolution of simulation from an epistemological, institutional and technical perspective. Rich case studies go far beyond documentation of simulation's capacity for application in many domains, they also explore the "functional" and "structural" debate that continues to traverse simulation thought and action. One here asks if simulation deeply transforms science, or instead constitutes a limited tool that principally extends the repertory of erstwhile practice. Does simulation comprise a novel form of experiment, or rather operate as a mechanism which extends standing forms of experimentation? What are simulation's relations with models or theory, for example? These studies further query to what extent and in what ways simulation may be regarded as a discipline, a special species of instrument, or as transdisciplinary Analysis filosofie philosophy technologie technology sociologie sociology wetenschapsfilosofie philosophy of science Philosophy (General) Filosofie (algemeen) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record In Springer e-books Subject Science -- Social aspects Simulation methods. Computer simulation. Mathematical models. Computer Simulation Models, Theoretical Research Design simulation methods. simulation. mathematical models. COMPUTERS -- Social Aspects -- General. Research Design. Science -- Social aspects. Simulation methods. Computer simulation. Computersimulaties. Sciences -- Aspect social. Simulation, Méthodes de. Simulation par ordinateur. Models, Theoretical. Sciences sociales. Sciences humaines. Mathematical models Computer simulation Science -- Social aspects Simulation methods Computersimulaties. Form Electronic book Author Lenhard, Johannes. Küppers, Günter. Shinn, Terry. LC no. 2007398355 ISBN 9781402053757 1402053754 1402053746 9781402053740 1280901934 9781280901935 6610901937 9786610901937

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