Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Models as mediating instruments
- 3 Models as autonomous agents
- 4 Built-in justification
- 5 The Ising model, computer simulation, and universal physics
- 6 Techniques of modelling and paper-tools in classical chemistry
- 7 The role of models in the application of scientific theories: epistemological implications
- 8 Knife-edge caricature modelling: the case of Marx's Reproduction Schema
- 9 Models and the limits of theory: quantum Hamiltonians and the BCS models of superconductivity
- 10 Past measurements and future prediction
- 11 Models and stories in hadron physics
- 12 Learning from models
- Index
List of contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Models as mediating instruments
- 3 Models as autonomous agents
- 4 Built-in justification
- 5 The Ising model, computer simulation, and universal physics
- 6 Techniques of modelling and paper-tools in classical chemistry
- 7 The role of models in the application of scientific theories: epistemological implications
- 8 Knife-edge caricature modelling: the case of Marx's Reproduction Schema
- 9 Models and the limits of theory: quantum Hamiltonians and the BCS models of superconductivity
- 10 Past measurements and future prediction
- 11 Models and stories in hadron physics
- 12 Learning from models
- Index
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- Models as MediatorsPerspectives on Natural and Social Science, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999