Communities of Dialogue Russian and Ukrainian Émigrés in Modernist Prague

Repository | Journal | Volume | Article

236303

The philosophical novelty of computer simulation methods

Paul Humphreys

pp. 615-626

Abstract

Reasons are given to justify the claim that computer simulations and computational science constitute a distinctively new set of scientific methods and that these methods introduce new issues in the philosophy of science. These issues are both epistemological and methodological in kind.

Publication details

Published in:

Frigg Roman, Hartmann Stephan, Imbert Cyrille (2009) Models and simulations. Synthese 169 (3).

Pages: 615-626

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9435-2

Full citation:

Humphreys Paul (2009) „The philosophical novelty of computer simulation methods“. Synthese 169 (3), 615–626.