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  • How Economists Model the World into Numbers

    par Marcel Boumans ...
    Collections series Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology
    Economics is dominated by model building, therefore a comprehension of how such models work is vital to understanding the discipline. This book provides a critical analysis of the economist's favourite tool, and as such will be an enlightening read for some, and an intriguing one for others. ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • Science Outside the Laboratory

    Measurement in Field Science and Economics

    par Marcel Boumans ...
    The conduct of most of social science occurs outside the laboratory. Such studies in field science explore phenomena that cannot for practical, technical, or ethical reasons be explored under controlled conditions. These phenomena cannot be fully isolated from their environment or investigated by manipulation or intervention. Yet measurement, including rigorous or clinical measurement, does ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD

  • Error and Uncertainty in Scientific Practice

    Modifié par Marcel Boumans, Giora Hon, Arthur Petersen ...
    Collections series History and Philosophy of Technoscience
    Assessment of error and uncertainty is a vital component of both natural and social science. This edited volume presents case studies of research practices across a wide spectrum of scientific fields. It compares methodologies and presents the ingredients needed for an overarching framework applicable to all. ... En savoir plus

    $116.99 CAD

  • Experts and Consensus in Social Science

    Modifié par Carlo Martini, Marcel Boumans ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book brings together the research of philosophers, sociologists, and social scientists. It examines those areas of scientific practice where reliance on the subjective judgment of experts and practitioners is the main source of useful knowledge to address and possibly, bring solutions to social problems. A common phenomenon in applications of science is that objective evidence does not point ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

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    par Herbert A. Simon ...
    Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools—chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms—for analyzing complexity and complex systems. There are updates throughout the book as well. These take into account important ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • How Physics Makes Us Free

    par J. T. Ismael ...
    In 1687 Isaac Newton ushered in a new scientific era in which laws of nature could be used to predict the movements of matter with almost perfect precision. Newton's physics also posed a profound challenge to our self-understanding, however, for the very same laws that keep airplanes in the air and rivers flowing downhill tell us that it is in principle possible to predict what each of us will do ... En savoir plus

    $27.19 CAD

  • The Emerging Consensus in Social Systems Theory

    par Kenneth C. Bausch ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    In The Emerging Consensus of Social Systems Theory Bausch summarizes the works of over 30 major systemic theorists. He then goes on to show the converging areas of consensus among these out-standing thinkers.Bausch categorizes the social aspects of current systemic thinking as falling into five broadly thematic areas: designing social systems, the structure of the social world, communication, ... En savoir plus

    $179.99 CAD

  • Philosophy in a New Century

    Selected Essays

    par John R. Searle ...
    John R. Searle has made profoundly influential contributions to three areas of philosophy: philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of society. This volume gathers together in accessible form a selection of his essays in these areas. They range widely across social ontology, where Searle presents concise and informative statements of positions developed in more detail elsewhere; ... En savoir plus

    $44.99 CAD

  • Making Things Happen

    A Theory of Causal Explanation

    par James Woodward ...
    Collections series Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
    In Making Things Happen, James Woodward develops a new and ambitious comprehensive theory of causation and explanation that draws on literature from a variety of disciplines and which applies to a wide variety of claims in science and everyday life. His theory is a manipulationist account, proposing that causal and explanatory relationships are relationships that are potentially exploitable for ... En savoir plus

    $42.39 CAD

  • Understanding Perspectivism

    Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects

    Modifié par Michela Massimi, Casey D. McCoy ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the view called perspectivism in philosophy of science. The book brings together an array of essays that reflect on the methodological promises and scientific challenges of perspectivism in a variety of fields such as physics, biology, cognitive neuroscience, and cancer research, just as a few examples. What are the advantages of using a ... En savoir plus

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  • Emergence

    par Paul Humphreys ...
    Interest in emergence amongst philosophers and scientists has grown in recent years, yet the concept continues to be viewed with skepticism by many. In this book, Paul Humphreys argues that many of the problems arise from a long philosophical tradition that is overly committed to synchronic reduction and has been overly focused on problems in philosophy of mind. He develops a novel account of ... En savoir plus

    $34.39 CAD

  • The Sciences of the Artificial, reissue of the third edition with a new introduction by John Laird

    par Herbert A. Simon ...
    Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence in the expanded and updated third edition from 1996, with a new introduction by John E. Laird.Herbert Simon's classic and influential The Sciences of the Artificial declares definitively that there can be a science not only of natural phenomena but also of what is artificial. Exploring the commonalities of artificial systems, including ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD