Models As Mediators Perspectives on Natural and Social Science

Name: Models As Mediators Perspectives on Natural and Social Science
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ISBN: 9780521650977

ISBN-10: 0521650976

ISBN-13: 9780521650977

Edition: 1999

Authors: Mary S. Morgan, Margaret Morrison

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Models As Mediators discusses the ways in which models function in modern science, particularly in the fields of physics and economics. Models are used in development, exploration and application of theories and in measurement methods.

Book details

List price: $142.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/21/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 420
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



List of contributors


Preface



Introduction




Models as mediating instruments




Models as autonomous agents




Built-in justification




The Ising model, computer simulation, and universal physics




Techniques of modelling and paper-tools in classical chemistry




The role of models in the application of scientific theories: epistemological implications




Knife-edge caricature modelling: the case of Marx's Reproduction Schema




Models and the limits of theory: quantum Hamiltonians and the BCS models of superconductivity




Past measurements and future prediction




Models and stories in hadron physics




Learning from models



Index