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The experimental side of modeling
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- Isabelle F. Peschard and Bas C. van Fraassen, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (viii, 325 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781452957456, 9781452957449, 1517905346, 1452957452, 9781517905347, 1452957444, 9781517905330
- OCLC
- on1028581364
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Models of Experiments; 2. Dynamics, Data, and Noise in the Cognitive Sciences; 3. Articulating the World: Experimental Practice and Conceptual Understanding; 4. Modeling/Experimentation: The Synthetic Strategy in the Study of Genetic Circuits; 5. Will Your Policy Work? Experiments versus Models; 6. Causal Content and Global Laws: Grounding Modality in Experimental Practice; 7. Experimental Flukes and Statistical Modeling in the Higgs Discovery; 8. Values and Evidence in Model-Based Climate Forecasting
- 9. Validating Idealized ModelsSymposium on Measurement; 10. Introduction: The Changing Debates about Measurement; 11. Measurement Accuracy Realism; 12. Let's Take the Metaphysical Bull by the Horns; 13. Taking the Metaphysical Bull by the Horns: Completing the Job; Contributors; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Index of Subjects; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V