Extending ourselves: computational science, empiricism, and scientific method
"Computational methods such as computer simulations, Monte Carlo methods, and agent-based modeling have become the dominant techniques in many areas of science. Extending Ourselves contains the first systematic philosophical account of these new methods, and how they require a different approac...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Computational methods such as computer simulations, Monte Carlo methods, and agent-based modeling have become the dominant techniques in many areas of science. Extending Ourselves contains the first systematic philosophical account of these new methods, and how they require a different approach to scientific method. Paul Humphreys draws a parallel between the ways in which such computational methods have enhanced our abilities to mathematically model the world, and the more familiar ways in which scientific instruments have expanded our access to the empirical world. This expansion forms the basis for a new kind of empiricism, better suited to the needs of science than the older anthropocentric forms of empiricism. Human abilities are no longer the ultimate standard of epistemological correctness." "Humphreys also includes arguments for the primary of properties rather than objects, the need to consider technological constraints when appraising scientific methods, and a detailed account of how the path from computational template to scientific application is constructed." "Extending Ourselves will be of interest to philosophers of science, epistemologists, and anyone interested in the role played by computers in modern science."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-167) and index |
| Beschreibung: | x, 172 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0195158709 |
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| adam_text | EXTENDING OURSELVES COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE, EMPIRICISM, AND SCIENTIFIC
METHOD PAUL HUMPHREYS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2004 CONTENTS 1 EPISTEMIC
ENHANCERS 3 1.1 EXTRAPOLATION, CONVERSION, AND AUGMENTATION 3 1.2
SCIENCE NEITHER BY THE PEOPLE NOR FOR THE PEOPLE 6 2 SCIENTIFIC
EMPIRICISM 9 2.1 EMPIRICISM AND RELIABLE DETECTION 9 2.2 THE DILUTION
ARGUMENT 12 2.3 ACCURACY, PRECISION, AND RESOLUTION 16 2.4 THE OVERLAP
ARGUMENT 17 2.5 PROPERTY CLUSTER REALISM 22 2.6 BRIDGMAN REVISITED 25
2.7 INSTRUMENTS AS PROPERTY DETECTORS 28 2.8 KNOW THY INSTRUMENTS 30 2.9
PROPERTIES 41 2.10 EPISTEMIC SECURITY 45 3 COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE 49 3.1
THE RISE OF COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE 49 3.2 TWO PRINCIPLES 55 3.3 UNITS OF
ANALYSIS 57 3.4 COMPUTATIONAL TEMPLATES 60 3.5 THE SAME EQUATIONS HAVE
THE SAME SOLUTIONS : REORGANIZING THE SCIENCES 67 3.6 TEMPLATE
CONSTRUCTION 72 3.7 CORRECTION SETS, INTERPRETATION, AND JUSTIFICATION
76 3.8 SELECTIVE REALISM 82 3.9 FURTHER CONSEQUENCES 85 3.10 TEMPLATES
ARE NOT ALWAYS BUILT ON LAWS OR THEORIES 3.11 THE ROLE OF
SUBJECT-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND EVALUATION OF
TEMPLATES 91 X CONTENTS 3.12 SYNTAX MATTERS 95 3.13 A BRIEF COMPARISON
WITH KUHN S VIEWS 100 3.14 COMPUTATIONAL MODELS 102 4 COMPUTER
SIMULATIONS 105 * 4.1 A DEFINITION 105 4.2 SOME ADVANTAGES OF COMPUTER
SIMULATIONS 114 4.3 THE MICROSCOPE METAPHOR AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES
116 4.4 OBSERVABLE, DETECTABLE, AND TRACTABLE 121 4.5 OTHER KINDS OF
SIMULATION 125 4.6 AGENT-BASED MODELING 129 4.7 DEFICIENCIES OF
SIMULATIONS 133 5 FURTHER ISSUES 137 5.1 COMPUTER SIMULATION AS
NEO-PYTHAGOREANISM 137 5.2 ABSTRACTION AND IDEALIZATION 141 5.3
EPISTEMIC OPACITY 147 5.4 LOGICAL FORM AND COMPUTATIONAL FORM 151 5.5 IN
PRACTICE, NOT IN PRINCIPLE 153 5.6 CONCLUSION 156 REFERENCES 157 INDEX
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