Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michael Weisberg (Department Chair and Professor, Department Chair and Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 16.30cm Weight: 0.465kg ISBN: 9780199933662ISBN 10: 0199933669 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 14 February 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews[This book] is lively, well-written, and should be accessible to novice audiences as well as informative and provocative to disciplinary insiders. It skillfully makes use of a relatively small set of carefully explained and not-overly-complicated examples to give an account that succeeds in being sophisticated and attentive to the details of scientific practice without getting overly mired in the details of 'case studies' that sometimes plague the literature on scientific modeling. --Eric Winsberg, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Michael Weisberg has given us a lovely book on models. It has very broad coverage of issues intersecting the nature of models and their use, an extensive consideration of long ignored concrete models with a rich case study, a discussion and classification of the many diverse kinds of models, and a particularly groundbreaking and innovative discussion of similarity concerning how models relate to the world ... his analysis is both clear and rich. William C. Wimsatt, Biology and Philosophy Excellent and thought-provoking Jay Odenbaugh, Biology and Philosophy well written and detailed in its exposition, providing concrete examples to ground the discussion. R. A. Kolvoord, CHOICE <br> [This book] is lively, well-written, and should be accessible to novice audiences as well as informative and provocative to disciplinary insiders. It skillfully makes use of a relatively small set of carefully explained and not-overly-complicated examples to give an account that succeeds in being sophisticated and attentive to the details of scientific practice without getting overly mired in the details of 'case studies' that sometimes plague the literature on scientific modeling. --Eric Winsberg, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<p><br> Author InformationMichael Weisberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
