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This book is an account of modeling and idealization in modern scientific practice, focusing on concrete, mathematical, and computational models. The main topic

The present text sets itself in relief to other titles on the subject in that it addresses the means and methodologies versus a narrow specific-task oriented ap

This is the most comprehensive book ever published on philosophical methodology. A team of thirty-eight of the world's leading philosophers present original ess

"Digital computer simulation helps study phenomena of great complexity, but how much do we know about the limits and possibilities of this new scientific practi

Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book repr