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In the 1950s, John Reber convinced many Californians that the best way to solve the state's water shortage problem was to dam up the San Francisco Bay. Against massive political pressure, Reber's opponents persuaded lawmakers that doing so would lead to disaster. They did this not by empirical measurement alone, but also through the construction of a model. Simulation and Similarity explains why this was a good strategy while...
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Michael Weisberg is Department Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.
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"In my own view, Simulation and Similarity satisfactorily serves such a general purpose, though at a rather formal and abstract level that takes the form of a compilation of advances in meta-theoretical research... For the general reader with a background in the philosophy of science (and I would include here science educators), I see two strong values in the book: (1) it provides a schematic state-of-the-art of semantic stances...
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0199933669
- ISBN 13 9780199933662
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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