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Author Harré, Rom.

Title Modeling : gateway to the unknown : a work / by Rom Harré ; edited by Daniel Rothbart.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages : illustrations).
text file
Series Studies in multidisciplinarity ; v. 1
Studies in multidisciplinarity ; v. 1.
Note Title from e-book title screen (viewed Jan. 8, 2008).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-257) and index.
Summary Edited by Daniel Rothbart of George Mason University in Virginia, this book is a collection of Rom Harř's work on modeling in science (particularly physics and psychology). In over 28 authored books and 240 articles and book chapters, Rom Harř of Georgetown University in Washington, DC is a towering figure in philosophy, linguistics, and social psychology. He has inspired a generation of scholars, both for the ways in which his research is carried out and his profound insights. For Harř, the stunning discoveries of research demand a kind of thinking that is found in the construction and control of models. Iconic modeling is pivotal for representing real-world structures, explaining phenomena, manipulating instruments, constructing theories, and acquiring data. This volume in the new Elsevier book series Studies in Multidisciplinarity includes major topics on the structure and function of models, the debates over scientific realism, explanation through analogical modeling, a metaphysics for physics, the rationale for experimentation, and modeling in social encounters. * A multidisciplinary work of sweeping scope about the nature of science * Revolutionary interpretation that challenges conventional wisdom about the character of scientific thinking * Profound insights about fundamental challenges to contemporary physics * Brilliant discoveries into the nature of social interaction and human identity * Presents a rational conception of methods for acquiring knowledge of remote regions of the world * Written by one of the great thinkers of our time.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- General Introduction -- Section One: The Structure and Function of Models -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Iconic Models -- Chapter Two. Formal Models -- Chapter Three. Properties and Images -- Section Two: Policy Realism -- Introduction -- Chapter Four. Model Making and the Defence of Realism -- Chapter Five. Models and the Realism Debates -- Section Three: Scientific Explanation -- Introduction -- Chapter Six. Theory-Families -- Chapter Seven. Creativity in Science -- Chapter Eight. Metaphors as the Expression of Models -- Chapter Nine. Models as Rhetorical Devices -- Section Four: A Metaphysics for Physics -- Introduction -- Chapter Ten. Modeling in Quantum Field Theory -- Chapter Eleven. A Dynamic Model for Space and Time -- Section Five: A Metaphysics for Experiments -- Introduction -- Chapter Twelve. Apparatus as Models in the Physical Sciences -- Chapter Thirteen. Reinterpreting Psychological Experiments -- Section Six: The Ethogenic Point of View in Social Science -- Introduction -- Chapter Fourteen. Social Action as Drama -- Chapter Fifteen. Conversation as Source Model for Human Sciences -- Chapter Sixteen. AI as Hybrid Model Making -- References -- Subject Index -- Last Page.
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Subject Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Methodology.
Science -- Methodology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Rothbart, Daniel.
Other Form: Print version: Harré, Rom. Modeling. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004 (DLC) 2009659290
ISBN 0080536646 (electronic book)
9780080536644 (electronic book)
9780444514646
0444514643
0444514643 (Cloth)