What are simulations? : An epistemological approach
Vallverdú, Jordi 1973- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filosofia)

Date:	2014
Abstract:	Contemporary sciences use a wide and diverse range of computational simulations, including in the areas of aeronautics, chemistry, bioinformatics, social sciences, AI, the physics of elementary particles and most other scientific fields. A simulation is a mathematical model that describes or creates computationally a system process. Simulations are our best cognitive representation of complex reality, that is, our deepest conception of what reality is. In this paper we defend that a simulation is equivalent epistemologically and ontologically with all other types of cognitive models of elements of reality. Therefore, simulations cannot be considered secondary nor weak instruments to approach to the reality analysis.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Model ; Computer ; Simulation ; Epistemology ; Representation
Published in:	Procedia technology, Vol. 13 (2014) , p. 6-15, ISSN 2212-0173

DOI: 10.1016/j.protcy.2014.02.003

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