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Simulation and similarity :
(Weisberg, Michael,) |
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Bibliographical information (record 267534) |
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Simulation and similarity : |
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using models to understand the world / |
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Author:
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Weisberg, Michael,
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Oxford University Press,
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9780199933662
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2013.
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Q175.32.M38 |
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003 |
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-185) and index.
- 1.Introduction -- 1.1.Two Aquatic Puzzles -- 1.2.Models of Modeling -- 2.Three Kinds of Models -- 2.1.Concrete Model: The San Francisco Bay-Delta Model -- 2.2.Mathematical Model: Lotka-Volterra Model -- 2.3.Computational Model: Schelling's Segregation Model -- 2.4.Common Features of these Models -- 2.5.Only Three Types of Models? -- 2.6.Fewer than Three Types of Model? -- 3.The Anatomy of Models -- 3.1.Structure -- 3.1.1.Concrete Structures -- 3.1.2.Mathematical Structures -- 3.1.3.Computational Structures -- 3.2.Model Descriptions -- 3.3.Construal -- 3.4.Representational Capacity of Structures -- 4.Fictions and Folk Ontology -- 4.1.Against Maths: Individuation, Causes, and Face-Value Practice -- 4.2.A Simple Fictions Account -- 4.3.Enriching the Simple Account -- 4.3.1.Waltonian Fictionalism -- 4.3.2.Fictions Without Models -- 4.4.Why I Am Not a Fictionalist -- 4.4.1.Variation -- 4.4.2.Representational Capacity of Different Models -- 4.4.3.Making Sense of Modeling -- 4.4.4.Variation in Practice -- 4.5.Folk Ontology -- 4.6.Maths, Interpretation, and Folk Ontology -- 5.Target-Directed Modeling -- 5.1.Model Development -- 5.2.Analysis of the Model -- 5.2.1.Complete Analysis -- 5.2.2.Goal-Directed Analysis -- 5.3.Model-Target Comparison -- 5.3.1.Phenomena and Target Systems -- 5.3.2.Establishing the Fit between Model and Target -- 5.3.3.Representations of Targets -- 6.Idealization -- 6.1.Three Kinds of Idealization -- 6.1.1.Galilean Idealization -- 6.1.2.Minimalist Idealization -- 6.1.3.Multiple-Models Idealization -- 6.2.Representational Ideals and Fidelity Criteria -- 6.2.1.Completeness -- 6.2.2.Simplicity -- 6.2.3.1-Causal -- 6.2.4.Maxout -- 6.2.5.P-General -- 6.3.Idealization and Representational Ideals -- 6.4.Idealization and Target-Directed Modeling -- 7.Modeling Without a Specific Target -- 7.1.Generalized Modeling -- 7.1.1.How-Possibly Explanations -- 7.1.2.Minimal Models and First-Order Causal Structures -- 7.2.Hypothetical Modeling -- 7.2.1.Contingent Nonexistence: xDNA -- 7.2.2.Impossible Targets: Infinite Population Growth and Perpetual Motion -- 7.3.Targetless Modeling -- 7.4.A Moving Target: The Case of Three-sex Biology -- 8.An Account of Similarity -- 8.1.Desiderata for Model-World Relations -- 8.2.Model-Theoretic Accounts -- 8.3.Similarity -- 8.4.Tversky's Contrast Account -- 8.5.Attributes and Mechanisms -- 8.6.Feature Sets, Construals, and Target Systems -- 8.7.Modeling Goals and Weighting Parameters -- 8.8.Weighting Function and Background Theory -- 8.9.Satisfying the Desiderata -- 9.Robustness Analysis and Idealization -- 9.1.Levins and Wimsatt on Robustness -- 9.2.Finding Robust Theorems -- 9.3.Three Kinds of Robustness -- 9.3.1.Parameter Robustness -- 9.3.2.Structural Robustness -- 9.3.3.Representational Robustness -- 9.4.Robustness and Confirmation -- 10.Conclusion: The Practice of Modeling.
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NEU Grand Library2nd Floor (Q175.32.M38 W45 2013)
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