LEVINS AND THE LURE OF ARTIFICIAL WORLDS.
What is it about simulation models that has led some practitioners to treat them as potential sources of empirical data on the real-world systems being simulated; that is, to treat simulations as 'artificial worlds' within which to perform computational 'experiments'? Here we use the work of Richard...
| Publicado en: | Monist Vol. 97; no. 3; pp. 301 - 321 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2014
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