Simulation and Similarity: Using Models to Understand the World

Simulation and Similarity is an account of modeling and idealization in modern scientific practice, focusing on concrete, mathematical, and computational models. The main topics of this book are the nature of models, the practice of modeling, and the nature of the relationship between models and real-world phenomena. In order to elucidate the model/world relationship, Weisberg develops a novel account of similarity called weighted feature matching. Additional ISBNs0199933669, 0190265124, 9780199933662, 9780190265120Simulation and Similarity: Using Models to Understand the World is written by Michael Weisberg and published by Oxford University Press. ISBNs for Simulation and Similarity are 9780199933679, 0199933677 and the print ISBNs are 9780199933662, 0199933669. Additional ISBNs include 0199933669, 0190265124, 9780199933662, 9780190265120.