Overview
- Makes essential contributions to the much needed assessment of simulation as scientific instrument
- Combines epistemological, historical, and institutional perspectives
- Explores cases from contemporary science, including nanotechnology and climate research
Part of the book series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook (SOSC, volume 25)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Layers of Integration
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the historical roots and evolution of simulation from an epistemological, institutional and technical perspective. Rich case studies go far beyond documentation of simulation’s capacity for application in many domains, they also explore the "functional" and "structural" debate that continues to traverse simulation thought and action. One here asks if simulation deeply transforms science, or instead constitutes a limited tool that principally extends the repertory of erstwhile practice. Does simulation comprise a novel form of experiment, or rather operate as a mechanism which extends standing forms of experimentation? What are simulation’s relations with models or theory, for example? These studies further query to what extent and in what ways simulation may be regarded as a discipline, a special species of instrument, or as transdisciplinary.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Simulation
Book Subtitle: Pragmatic Constructions of Reality
Editors: Johannes Lenhard, Günter Küppers, Terry Shinn
Series Title: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5375-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5374-0Published: 09 January 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-8701-8Published: 14 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5375-7Published: 16 May 2007
Series ISSN: 0167-2320
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1796
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 214
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Sociology, general, Philosophy of Technology