This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological consequences of the current decisive interplay between technology and science: an intertwining of formalism, computation, data acquisition, data and visualization and how these factors have led to the spread of simulation models since the 1950s.
Using historical, comparative and interpretative case studies from a range of disciplines, with a particular emphasis on the case of plant studies, the author shows how and why computers, data treatment devices and programming languages have occasioned a gradual but irresistible and massive shift from mathematical models to computer simulations.
| ISBN: | 9780367586621 |
| Publication date: | 30th June 2020 |
| Author: | Franck Varenne |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | History and Philosophy of Technoscience |
| Genres: |
Philosophy of science History of science Philosophy History |
This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological consequences of the current decisive interplay between technology and science: an intertwining of formalism, computation, data acquisition, data and visualization and how these factors have led to the spread of simulation models since the 1950s. Using historical, comparative and interpretative case studies from a range of disciplines, with a particular emphasis on the case of plant studies, the author shows how and why computers, data treatment devices and programming languages have occasioned a gradual but irresistible and massive shift from mathematical models to computer simulations.
From Models to Simulations features in the following genres: Philosophy of science, History of science, Philosophy, History
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From Models to Simulations was written by Franck Varenne and published by Routledge an imprint of Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin
From Models to Simulations has 224 pages
Yes it is part of History and Philosophy of Technoscience series
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