Simulation and similarity: using models to understand the world
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 176 - 185. - Hier auch unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | XVIII, 190 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Figures
xiii
List of Tables
xv
Preface
xvii
1
Introduction
1
1.1
Two Aquatic Puzzles
1
1.2
Models of Modeling
4
2
Three Kinds of Models
7
2.1
Concrete Model: The San Francisco Bay-Delta Model
7
2.2
Mathematical Model:
Lotka-
Volteira
Model
10
2.3
Computational Model: Schelling s Segregation Model
13
2.4
Common Features of these Models
14
2.5
Only Three Types of Models?
15
2.6
Fewer than Three Types of Model?
19
3
The Anatomy of Models
24
3.1
Structure
24
3.1.1
Concrete Structures
24
3.1.2
Mathematical Structures
25
3.1.3
Computational Structures
29
3.2
Model Descriptions
31
3.3
Construal
39
3.4
Representational Capacity of Structures
42
4
Fictions and Folk Ontology
46
4.1
Against Maths: Individuation, Causes, and Face-Value
Practice
46
4.2
A Simple Fictions Account
49
4.3
Enriching the Simple Account
51
4.3.1
Waltonian Fictionalism
53
4.3.2
Fictions Without Models
55
4.4
Why I Am Not a Fictionalist
56
4.4.1
Variation
56
4.4.2
Representational Capacity of Different Models
61
4.4.3
Making Sense of Modeling
63
4.4.4
Variation in Practice
64
χ
si Contents
4.5
Folk Ontology
67
4.6
Maths, Interpretation, and Folk Ontology
70
Target-Directed Modeling
74
5.1
Model Development
75
5.2
Analysis of the Model
79
5.2.1
Complete Analysis
79
5.2.2
Goal-Directed Analysis
83
5.3
Model-Target Comparison
90
5.3.1
Phenomena and Target Systems
90
5.3.2
Establishing the Fit between Model and Target
93
5.3.3
Representations of Targets
95
Idealization
98
6.1
Three Kinds of Idealization
98
6.1.1
Galilean Idealization
99
6.1.2
Minimalist Idealization
Ю0
6.1.3
Multiple-Models Idealization
103
6.2
Representational Ideals and Fidelity Criteria
105
6.2.1
Completeness
105
6.2.2
Simplicity
107
6.2.3
1-Causal
107
6.2.4
Maxout
109
6.2.5
P-General
109
6.3
Idealization and Representational Ideals HO
6.4
Idealization and Target-Directed Modeling
112
Modeling Without a Specific Target
114
7.1
Generalized Modeling
114
7.1.1
How-Possibly Explanations
118
7.1.2
Minimal Models and First-Order Causal
Structures
119
7.2
Hypothetical Modeling
121
7.2.1
Contingent Nonexistence: xDNA
122
7.2.2
Impossible Targets: Infinite Population
Growth and Perpetual Motion
124
7.3
Targetless Modeling
129
7.4
A Moving Target: The Case of Three-sex Biology
131
An Account of Similarity
135
8.1
Desiderata for Model-World Relations
135
8.2
Model-Theoretic Accounts
137
8.3
Similarity
142
8.4
Tversky s Contrast Account
143
Contents
ш
xi
8.5 Attributes
and Mechanisms
145
8.6
Feature Sets,
Construais,
and Target Systems
148
8.7
Modeling Goals and Weighting Parameters
150
8.8
Weighting Function and Background Theory
152
8.9
Satisfying the Desiderata
154
9
Robustness Analysis and Idealization
156
9.1
Levins and Wimsatt on Robustness
156
9.2
Finding Robust Theorems
158
9.3
Three Kinds of Robustness
159
9.3.1
Parameter Robustness
160
9.3.2
Structural Robustness
161
9.3.3
Representational Robustness
162
9.4
Robustness and Confirmation
167
10
Conclusion: The Practice of Modeling
171
References
176
Index
186
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