Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method
Computational methods have become the dominant technique in many areas of science. This book contains the first systematic philosophical account of these new methods and their consequences for scientific method. This book will be of interest to philosophers of science and to anyone interested in the role played by computers in modern science.
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Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method
Computational methods have become the dominant technique in many areas of science. This book contains the first systematic philosophical account of these new methods and their consequences for scientific method. This book will be of interest to philosophers of science and to anyone interested in the role played by computers in modern science.
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Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method

Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method

by Paul Humphreys
Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method

Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method

by Paul Humphreys

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Computational methods have become the dominant technique in many areas of science. This book contains the first systematic philosophical account of these new methods and their consequences for scientific method. This book will be of interest to philosophers of science and to anyone interested in the role played by computers in modern science.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198036005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 07/22/2004
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 487 KB

About the Author

Paul Humphreys is chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. A former editor of Synthese and a founding editor of Foundations of Science, his research interests include computer modeling, probability theory, strategic reasoning, emergence, causation, and explanation.
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