Models as Make-Believe: Imagination, Fiction, and Scientific Representation
Palgrave Macmillan (2013)
| Abstract | Models as Make-Believe offers a new approach to scientific modelling by looking to an unlikely source of inspiration: the dolls and toy trucks of children's games of make-believe. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Science Philosophy Mathematical models Philosophy | |||||||||
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| Call number | Q175.32.M38.T66 2013 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780230301214 0230301215 | |||||||||
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