Adam Toon

Models as Make-Believe

Imagination, Fiction and Scientific Representation

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-30121-4
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780230301214
• ISBN-10: 0230301215
• Artikelnr.: 36623135

Autorenporträt

ADAM TOON is Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Exeter.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Models and Representation What Models Are How Models Represent Carbon in Cardboard Playing with Molecules Conclusion Notes References Index