Is computer simulation changing the face of experimentation?
Morrison points out many similarities between the roles of simulation models and other sorts of models in science. On the basis of these similarities she claims that running a simulation is epistemologically on a par with doing a traditional experiment and that the output of a simulation therefore c...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 143; no. 1; pp. 59 - 63 |
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