Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method

By Paul Humphreys. 2004

574 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science, Information Systems and Management

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In History and Philosophy of Science

1. Tarja Knuuttila
2. Ludwig Fahrbach
3. Paul Humphreys
4. John F. Symons
5. Ramón Alvarado

In Information Systems and Management

1. Tarja Knuuttila
2. Ludwig Fahrbach
3. Ramón Alvarado
4. John F. Symons

Citations in the corpus

• A Simulation Model for the Waterfall Software Development Life Cycle (2012, unknown): “Keywords: Software Engineering, SDLC, Waterfall Model, Computer Simulation, Simphony.NET”
• Theory Change and Degrees of Success (2011, background): “In many disciplines, data are nowadays gathered automatically (cf. Humphreys 2004, 6–8).”
• The philosophical novelty of computer simulation methods (2009, background): “3.14 [of Humphreys 2004] that correctly represents B, either dynamically or statically.”
• Modelling and representing: An artefactual approach to model-based representation (2011, methodology): “…Results-drivenness Whereas the constraining and affording nature of representational means applies to scientific representation in general, Paul Humphreys (2002, 2004) points out a characteristic of mathematical representation that seems to differentiate mathematical and computational models…”