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The philosophical novelty of computer simulation methods

Paul Humphreys

pp. 615-626

Reasons are given to justify the claim that computer simulations and computational science constitute a distinctively new set of scientific methods and that these methods introduce new issues in the philosophy of science. These issues are both epistemological and methodological in kind.

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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9435-2

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Humphreys, P. (2009). The philosophical novelty of computer simulation methods. Synthese 169 (3), pp. 615-626.

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