Simulation Pragmatic Construction of Reality
This book examines the historical roots and evolution of simulation from an epistemological, institutional and technical perspective. Rich case studies go far beyond documentation of simulation’s capacity for application in many domains, they also explore
- PDF / 5,324,398 Bytes
- 220 Pages / 595 x 842 pts (A4) Page_size
- 66 Downloads / 188 Views
Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook VOLUME XXV Managing Editor:
Peter Weingart, Universität Bielefeld, Germany Editorial Board:
Yaron Ezrahi, The Israel Democracy Institute, Jerusalem, Israel Ulrike Felt, Institut f ur ¨ Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsforschung, Vienna, Austria Michael Hagner, Max-Planck-Institut f ur ¨ Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Germany Stephen H. Hilgartner, Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A. Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. Sabine Maasen, Wissenschaftsforschung/Wissenschaftssoziologie, Basel, Switzerland Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. Helga Nowotny, ETH Z u¨ rich, Z u¨ rich, Switzerland Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, Max-Planck Institut f u¨ r Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Germany Terry Shinn, GEMAS Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France Richard D.Whitley, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Bj¨orn Wittrock, SCASSS, Uppsala, Sweden
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
SIMULATION Pragmatic Construction of Reality
Edited by
JOHANNES LENHARD University of Bielefeld, Germany
GÜNTER KÜ PPERS University of Bielefeld, Germany
and
TERRY SHINN GEMAS Paris, France
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13
1-4020-5374-6 (HB) 978-1-4020-5374-0 (HB) 1-4020-5375-4 (e-book) 978-1-4020-5375-7 (e-book)
Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com
Printed on acid-free paper
All Rights Reserved © 2006 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Chapter 1:
COMPUTER SIMULATION: PRACTICE, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS ....................................................................... 3 Günter Küppers, Johannes Lenhard, and Terry Shinn IMITATING MODELS
Chapter 2:
THE SHAPE OF MOLECULES TO COME ................................................ 25 Ann Johnson
Chapter 3:
FROM REPRESENTATION TO PRODUCTION: PARSERS AND PARSING IN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY ........................ 41 Tarja Knuuttila
Chapter 4:
FOUNDATIONS FOR THE SIMULATION OF ECOSYSTEMS ...................... 57 Michael Hauhs and Holger Lange
Chapter 5:
MODELS, MODELS EVERYWHERE ...................................................... 79 Don Ihde LAYERS OF INTEGRATION
Chapter 6:
FROM HIERARCHICAL TO NETWORK-LIKE INTEGRATION: A REVOLUTION OF MODELING STYLE IN COMPUTER-SIMULATION ... 89 Günter Küppers and Johannes Lenhard
Chapter 7:
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANSWERING A ‘WHY’ QUESTION AND ANSWERING A ‘HOW MUCH’ QUESTION ................................... 107 Marcel Boumans
C
Data Loading...
