Reconstructing reality: models, mathematics, and simulations

Abstract

Preface Part One: Mathematics, Explanation and Understanding Chapter One: Abstraction and Idealisation: Understanding via Models Chapter Two: From the Pure to the Concrete: How Mathematics Yields Physical Information Part Two: Where Models Meet the World: Problems and Perspectives Chapter Three: More than Make-Believe: Fictions, Models and Reality Chapter Four: Mediated Knowledge: Representation and The Theory-Model Axis Chapter Five: Making the Best of It: Inconsistent vs. Complementary Models Part Three: Computer Simulation: The New Reality Chapter Six: Why Materiality is Not Enough: Models, Measurement and Computer Simulation Chapter Seven: Legitimating Simulation: Methodological Issues of Verification and Validation. Chapter Eight: Without it there's Nothing: The Necessity of Simulation in the Higgs Search Index

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