Les simulations computationnelles dans les sciences sociales.
Since the 1990's, social sciences are living their computational turn. This paper aims to clarify the epistemological meaning of this turn. To do this, we have to discriminate between different epistemic functions of computation among the diverse uses of computers for modeling and simulating in the...
| Publicado en: | Nouvelles Perspectives en Sciences Sociales Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 17 - 50 |
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