Models As Mediators - Perspectives on Natural and Social Science

Klappentext Edited collection examining the ways in which models are used in modern science. Zusammenfassung Using eleven case studies drawn from the history of physics and economics! Models as Mediators fills a prominent gap in the philosophy of science literature by focussing on several aspects of modelling! including such topics as function and construction of different types of models in different fields. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction Margaret Morrison and Mary S. Morgan; 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: epistemological implications Mauricio Suarez; 8. Knife edge caricature modelling: the case of Marx's reproduction schema Geert Reuten; 9. Models and the limits of theory: quantum Hamiltonians and the BCS model of superconductivity Nancy Cartwright; 10. Past measurement and future prediction Adrienne van den Bogaard; 11. Models and stories in Hadron physics Stephan Hartmann; 12. Learning from models Mary S. Morgan.

Product details

• Authors: Mary S. (Universiteit Van Amsterdam) Morri Morgan, Mary S. Morrison Morgan
• Assisted by: Mary Morgan (Editor), Mary S. Morgan (Editor), Margaret Morrison (Editor), Quentin Skinner (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.1999
• EAN: 9780521650977
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65097-7
• No. of pages: 420
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Astronomy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries