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The Experimental Side of Modeling (Paperback)
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The Experimental Side of Modeling (Paperback)
Series: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
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An innovative, multifaceted approach to scientific experiments as
designed by and shaped through interaction with the modeling
process The role of scientific modeling in mediation between
theories and phenomena is a critical topic within the philosophy of
science, touching on issues from climate modeling to synthetic
models in biology, high energy particle physics, and cognitive
sciences. Offering a radically new conception of the role of data
in the scientific modeling process as well as a new awareness of
the problematic aspects of data, this cutting-edge volume offers a
multifaceted view on experiments as designed and shaped in
interaction with the modeling process. Contributors address such
issues as the construction of models in conjunction with scientific
experimentation; the status of measurement and the function of
experiment in the identification of relevant parameters; how the
phenomena under study are reconceived when accounted for by a
model; and the interplay between experimenting, modeling, and
simulation when results do not mesh. Highlighting the mediating
role of models and the model-dependence (as well as
theory-dependence) of data measurement, this volume proposes a
normative and conceptual innovation in scientific modeling-that the
phenomena to be investigated and modeled must not be precisely
identified at the start but specified during the course of the
interactions arising between experimental and modeling activities.
Contributors: Nancy D. Cartwright, U of California, San Diego;
Anthony Chemero, U of Cincinnati; Ronald N. Giere, U of Minnesota;
Jenann Ismael, U of Arizona; Tarja Knuuttila, U of South Carolina;
Andrea Loettgers, U of Bern, Switzerland; Deborah Mayo, Virginia
Tech; Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan U; Paul Teller, U of California,
Davis; Michael Weisberg, U of Pennsylvania; Eric Winsberg, U of
South Florida.
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