Models as Make-Believe E-Book

Adam Toon

• Herausgeber: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

Scientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific models by comparing them to the dolls and toy trucks of children's imaginative games, and offers a unified framework to solve difficult metaphysical problems and help to make sense of scientific practice.