Feb 27, 2006 · Models raise questions in semantics (how, if at all, do models represent?), ontology (what kind of things are models?), epistemology (how do we learn and explain with models?), and, of …

May 6, 2013 · In this broader sense of the term, it refers to an entire process. This process includes choosing a model; finding a way of implementing that model in a form that can be run on a computer; …

Feb 27, 2006 · The billiard ball model of a gas, the Bohr model of the atom, the double helix model of DNA, the scale model of a bridge, the Mundell-Fleming model of an open economy, or the Lorenz …

Sep 23, 1996 · Bayesian models are prominent in cognitive science, with applications to such psychological phenomena as learning, vision, motor control, language, and social cognition.

Jan 17, 2017 · The conflict model holds that science and religion are in perpetual and principal conflict. It relies heavily on two historical narratives: the trial of Galileo (see Dawes 2016) and the reception of …

Oct 10, 2016 · This is in line both with the more recent literature on scientific representation, which is predominantly concerned with scientific models, and with the prime importance that current …

Sep 7, 2023 · Agent-based models (ABMs) are computational models that simulate behavior of individual agents in order to study emergent phenomena at the level of the community. Depending …

Nov 13, 2015 · Science is an enormously successful human enterprise. The study of scientific method is the attempt to discern the activities by which that success is achieved.

Oct 16, 2015 · Structuralists say that a physical system implements a model just in case the model’s causal structure is “isomorphic” to the model’s formal structure. A computational model describes a …

Mar 5, 2015 · These models include models of theory, models of experiment, and models of data (Suppes 1962, 2002). Here is a summary of important parts of the hierarchy (Suppes 1962, Table 1, …