This volume contains fifteen papers by Paul Humphreys, who has made important contributions to the philosophy of computer simulations, emergence, the philosophy of probability, probabilistic causality, and scientific explanation. It includes detailed postscripts to each section and a philosophical introduction. One of the papers is previously unpublished.
This volume contains fifteen papers by Paul Humphreys, who has made important contributions to the philosophy of computer simulations, emergence, the philosophy of probability, probabilistic causality, and scientific explanation. It includes detailed postscripts to each section and a philosophical introduction. One of the papers is previously unpublished.
Paul Humphreys is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Human and Machine Intelligence Group, at the University of Virginia. Author of over one hundred articles, he is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science, and series editor of Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science.
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Contents Table of Contents Introduction Part I - Computational Science Chapter 1. Computer Simulation Chapter 2. Computational Science and Its Effects Chapter 3. The Philosophical Novelty of Computer Simulation Methods Chapter 4. Numerical Experimentation Templates, Opacity, and Simulations: Postscript to Part I Part II - Emergence Chapter 5. How Properties Emerge Chapter 6. Emergence, Not Supervenience Chapter 7. Synchronic and Diachronic Emergence Chapter 8. Computational and Conceptual Emergence Postscript to Part II Part III - Probability Chapter 9. Why Propensities Cannot Be Probabilities Chapter 10. Some Considerations on Conditional Chapter 11. Probability Theory and Its Models Postscript to Part III Part IV - General Philosophy of Science Chapter 12. Aleatory Explanations Chapter 13. Analytic and Synthetic Understanding Chapter 14. Scientific Ontology and Speculative Ontology Chapter 15. Endogenous Uncertainty and the Dynamics of Constraints Postscript to Part IV Index
Contents Table of Contents Introduction Part I - Computational Science Chapter 1. Computer Simulation Chapter 2. Computational Science and Its Effects Chapter 3. The Philosophical Novelty of Computer Simulation Methods Chapter 4. Numerical Experimentation Templates, Opacity, and Simulations: Postscript to Part I Part II - Emergence Chapter 5. How Properties Emerge Chapter 6. Emergence, Not Supervenience Chapter 7. Synchronic and Diachronic Emergence Chapter 8. Computational and Conceptual Emergence Postscript to Part II Part III - Probability Chapter 9. Why Propensities Cannot Be Probabilities Chapter 10. Some Considerations on Conditional Chapter 11. Probability Theory and Its Models Postscript to Part III Part IV - General Philosophy of Science Chapter 12. Aleatory Explanations Chapter 13. Analytic and Synthetic Understanding Chapter 14. Scientific Ontology and Speculative Ontology Chapter 15. Endogenous Uncertainty and the Dynamics of Constraints Postscript to Part IV Index
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