The philosophical novelty of computer simulation methods |
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| Authors: | Paul Humphreys |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia, 120 Cocke Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4780, USA |
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| Abstract: | Reasons are given to justify the claim that computer simulations and computational science constitute a distinctively new set of scientific methods and that these methods introduce new issues in the philosophy of science. These issues are both epistemological and methodological in kind. |
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| Keywords: | Computer simulations Computational science Epistemic opacity Semantics Temporal dynamics Approximations |
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