Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method
Author:   Paul Humphreys (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   New edition
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9780195313291


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   05 April 2007
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Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method


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Author:   Paul Humphreys (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 22.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 15.20cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9780195313291


ISBN 10:   0195313291
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   05 April 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Many of the issues raised here are important and and deserving of the attention the author pays to them. --Choice<br> This book is an excellent philosophical appraisal of the roles played by computers in modern science...an excellent philosophical discussion of the role of computational models in physics. --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<br>


... many of the issues raised here are important and deserving of the attention the author pays to them. -CHOICE This book is an excellent philosophical appraisal of the roles played by computers in modern science...an excellent philosophical discussion of the role of computational models in physics. -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews


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Paul Humphreys is chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. A former editor of Synthese and a founding editor of Foundations of Science, his research interests include computer modeling, probability theory, strategic reasoning, emergence, causation, and explanation.

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