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Capturing the representational and the experimental in the modelling of artificial societies
European Journal for Philosophy of Science ( IF 1.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 , DOI: 10.1007/s13194-021-00382-5
David Anzola

Even though the philosophy of simulation is intended as a comprehensive reflection about the practice of computer simulation in contemporary science, its output has been disproportionately shaped by research on equation-based simulation in the physical and climate sciences. Hence, the particularities of alternative practices of computer simulation in other scientific domains are not sufficiently accounted for in the current philosophy of simulation literature. This article centres on agent-based social simulation, a relatively established type of simulation in the social sciences, to exemplify this claim. The analysis advanced has a twofold goal. First, it shows that the philosophy of agent-based social simulation, mostly developed by practitioners themselves, is, on one hand, heavily influenced by the methodological features of agent-based modelling and by the loose and fragmented character of social theory and, on the other hand, distinctively shaped by contrasting views of what it implies to do social research with virtual or artificial societies. Second, it suggests ways in which cross-fertilisation could enrich the philosophical understanding of computer simulation both in agent-based social simulation and in the philosophy of simulation.



中文翻译:

捕捉人工社会建模中的代表性和实验性

尽管模拟哲学旨在全面反映当代科学中计算机模拟的实践,但其产出已被物理和气候科学中基于方程的模拟研究不成比例地塑造。因此,其他科学领域中计算机模拟替代实践的特殊性在当前的模拟文献哲学中没有得到充分考虑。本文以基于代理的社会模拟为中心,这是社会科学中相对成熟的模拟类型,以举例说明这一主张。高级分析有双重目标。首先,它表明,主要由从业者自己开发的基于代理的社会模拟哲学,一方面,受到基于代理的建模的方法论特征以及社会理论松散和碎片化的特征的严重影响,另一方面,受到对虚拟或人工社会进行社会研究意味着什么的不同观点的鲜明影响。其次,它提出了交叉促进可以在基于代理的社会模拟和模拟哲学中丰富对计算机模拟的哲学理解的方法。

更新日期:2021-06-30
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