The philosophical novelty of computer simulation methods

Paul Humphreys

pp. 615-626

in: Roman Frigg, Stephan Hartmann, Cyrille Imbert (eds), Models and simulations, Synthese 169 (3), 2009.

Abstract

Reasons are given to justify the claim that computer simulations and computational science constitute a distinctively new set of scientific methods and that these methods introduce new issues in the philosophy of science. These issues are both epistemological and methodological in kind.