Polycratic hierarchies and networks: what simulation-modeling at the LHC can teach us about the epistemology of simulation.
Large scale experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) rely heavily on computer simulations (CSs), a fact that has recently caught philosophers' attention. CSs obviously require appropriate modeling, and it is a common assumption among philosophers that the relevant models can be ordered into...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 199; no. 1/2; pp. 445 - 481 |
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