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Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Philosophy and SimulationProvides a philosophical overview of the rapidly growing field of computer simulations. In this book, the author analyzes all the different genres of simulation (from cellular automata and genetic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems) as a means to conceptualize the possibility spaces associated with causal (and other) capacities.
Full description- Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Published: 24 March 2011
- Format: Hardback 240 pages
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- Categories: Cybernetics & Systems Theory | Philosophy Of Science | Philosophy | Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory Of Knowledge
- ISBN 13: 9781441170286 ISBN 10: 1441170286
- Sales rank: 104,005
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Full description for Philosophy and Simulation
In this groundbreaking new book, Manuel Delanda analyzes all the different genres of simulation (from cellular automata and genetic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems) as a means to conceptualize the possibility spaces associated with causal (and other) capacities. Simulations allow us to stage actual interactions among a population of agents and to observe the emergent wholes that result from those interactions. Simulations have become as important as mathematical models in theoretical science. As computer power and memory have become cheaper they have migrated to the desktop, where they now play the role that small-scale experiments used to play. A philosophical examination of the epistemology of simulations is needed to cement this new role, underlining the consequences that simulations may have for materialist philosophy itself. This remarkably clear philosophical discussion of a rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research at the interface of science and the humanities, is a must-read for anyone interested in the philosophy of technology and the philosophy of science at all levels.
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