Models as mediators : perspectives on natural and social science /
Models as Mediators discusses the ways in which models function in modern science, particularly in the fields of physics and economics. Models play a variety of roles in the sciences: they are used in the development, exploration and application of theories and in measurement methods. They also prov...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1999
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| Series: | Ideas in context ;
no. 52 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Models as mediating instruments / Margaret Morrison and Mary S. Morgan
- 3. Models as autonomous agents / Margaret Morrison
- 4. Built-in justification / Marcel Boumans
- 5. The Ising model, computer simulation, and universal physics / R. I. G. Hughes
- 6. Techniques of modelling and paper-tools in classical chemistry / Ursula Klein
- 7. The role of models in the application of scientific theories / Mauricio Suárez
- 8. Knife-edge caricature modelling / Geert Reuten
- 9. Models and the limits of theory / Nancy Cartwright
- 10. Past measurements and future prediction / Adrienne van den Bogaard.