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Computer Simulations in Science and Engineering

Part of the The Frontiers Collection Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90882-3

ISBN: 978-3-319-90880-9

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Sep 21, 2018

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Chapter 1The Universe of Computer Simulations

Durán, Juan Manuel

Pages: 1 –29

[The universe of computer simulations is vast, flourishing in almost every scientific discipline, and still resisting a general conceptualization. From the early computations of the Moon’s orbit carried out by punched card machines, to the most recent attempts to simulate quantum states, computer...
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Chapter 2Units of Analysis I: Models and Computer Simulations

Durán, Juan Manuel

Pages: 31 –60

[Theories, models, experimental set-ups, prototypes: these are some of the typical units of analysis found in standard scientific and engineering work. Science and engineering are of course populated with other, equally decisive units of analysis that facilitate our description and knowledge of...
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Chapter 3Units of Analysis II: Laboratory Experimentation and Computer Simulations

Durán, Juan Manuel

Pages: 61 –78

[When philosophers fixed their attention on computer simulations, three different main lines of study emerged (Durá)n 2013a). The first line of study focuses on finding a suitable definition for computer simulations. A fundamental step towards understanding computer simulations is, precisely, to...
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Chapter 4Trusting Computer Simulations

Durán, Juan Manuel

Pages: 79 –111

[Relying on computer simulations and trusting their results is key for the epistemic future of this new research methodology. The questions that interest us in this chapter are how do researchers typically build reliability on computer simulations? and what exactly would it mean to trust results...
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Chapter 5Epistemic Functions of Computer Simulations

Durán, Juan Manuel

Pages: 113 –145

[The previous chapter made a distinction between knowing and understanding. In computer simulations, this distinction allows us to set apart knowing when researchers trust the results and when they understand them. In this chapter, we explore different forms of understanding by means of using...
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Chapter 6Technological Paradigms

Durán, Juan Manuel

Pages: 147 –169

[In previous chapters, we have discussed how philosophers, scientists, and engineers alike construct the idea that computer simulations offer a ‘new epistemology’ for scientific practice. By this they meant that computer simulations introduce new—and perhaps unprecedented—forms of knowing and...
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Chapter 7Ethics and Computer Simulations

Durán, Juan Manuel

Pages: 171 –188

[This chapter has the sole purpose of asking the following question: is there an ethics that emerges in the context of computer simulations? In order to properly answer this question, we need to investigate the specialized literature to see how issues have been approached. The first problem that...

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