Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method

by Paul Humphreys

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195158709
• ISBN13: 9780195158700
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"