Extending Ourselves Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method [Paperback]

Computational methods have become the dominant technique in many areas of science. This book contains the first systematic philosophical account of these new methods and their consequences for scientific method. This book will be of interest to philosophers of science and to anyone interested in the role played by computers in modern science.

Many of the issues raised here are important and and deserving of the attention the author pays to them. --Choice

This book is an excellent philosophical appraisal of the roles played by computers in modern science...an excellent philosophical discussion of the role of computational models in physics. --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Paul Humphreysis chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. A former editor ofSyntheseand a founding editor ofFoundations of Science, his research interests include computer modeling, probability theory, strategic reasoning, emergence, causation, and explanation.