Evidence and Knowledge from Computer Simulation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21461208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wendy S Parker (0000-0001-7796-3401, Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1521-1538 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Erkenntnis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-0106 • E-ISSN: 1572-8420 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10670-020-00260-1 |
| OpenAlex | W3022349005 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 26 |
Can computer simulation results be evidence for hypotheses about real-world systems and phenomena? If so, what sort of evidence? Can we gain genuinely new knowledge of the world via simulation? I argue that evidence from computer simulation is aptly characterized as higher - order evidence : it is evidence that other evidence regarding a hypothesis about the world has been collected. Insofar as particular epistemic agents do not have this other evidence, it is possible that they will gain genuinely new knowledge of the world via simulation. I illustrate with examples inspired by uses of simulation in meteorology and astrophysics
Empirical evidence · Epistemology · Information retrieval · Ontology · sort · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Scientific Computing and Data Management
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Fast Methods for Drug Approval
The Unity of Robustness
Confirmation by Robustness Analysis
Social Epistemology and Validation in Agent-Based Social Simulation
Investigating the role of simulations in astrophysics
Against “Possibilist” Interpretations of Climate Models
Science in the Age of Computer Simulation
Extending Ourselves
The Generality Problem for Reliabilism
The epistemology of climate models and some of its implications for climate science and the philosophy of science
The reference class problem is your problem too
Does matter really matter? Computer simulations, experiments, and materiality
Computer simulations as experiments
Computer simulation and the features of novel empirical data
Simulations, Models, and Theories
A Novel Solution to the Problem of Old Evidence
Appraising Models Nonrepresentationally
Higher‐Order Evidence 1
Computer Simulation, Measurement, and Data Assimilation
Sanctioning Models
| Citations per year | 1.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |