The philosophical novelty of computer simulation methods

Synthese

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 615-626

  Humphreys, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximations; Computational science; Computer simulations; Epistemic opacity; Semantics; Temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650491060     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9435-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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