Growing artificial societies: social science from the bottom up
Growing artificial societies: social science from the bottom up
Understanding Anasazi culture change through agent-based modeling
Dynamics in human and primate societies
Simulation for the Social Scientist
Simulation for the Social Scientist
Computing in Science and Engineering
Identity Crisis: Simulations and Models
Simulation and Gaming
Agent-Based Models as Policy Decision Tools: The Case of Smallpox Vaccination
Simulation and Gaming
Serious Games, Debriefing, and Simulation/Gaming as a Discipline
Simulation and Gaming
Simulation and Gaming
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The philosophical literature on simulations has increased dramatically during the past 40 years. Many of its main topics are epistemological. For example, philosophers consider how the results of simulations help explain natural phenomena. This essay芒聙聶s review treats mainly simulations in the social sciences. It considers the nature of simulations, the varieties of simulation, and uses of simulations for representation, prediction, explanation, and policy decisions. Being oriented toward philosophy of science, it compares simulations to models and experiments and considers whether simulations raise new methodological issues.The essay concludes that several features of simulations set them apart from models and experiments and make them novel scientific tools, whose powers and limits are not yet well understood.