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Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination

Autor Aimee Kendall Roundtree
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mar 2017
Computer simulations help advance climatology, astrophysics, and other scientific disciplines. They are also at the crux of several high-profile cases of science in the news. How do simulation scientists, with little or no direct observations, make decisions about what to represent? What is the nature of simulated evidence, and how do we evaluate its strength? Aimee Kendall Roundtree suggests answers in Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination. She interprets simulations in the sciences by uncovering the argumentative strategies that underpin the production and dissemination of simulated findings. She also explains how subjective and social influences do not diminish simulations' virtue or power to represent the real thing. Along the way, Roundtree situates computer simulations within the scientific imagination alongside paradoxes, thought experiments, and metaphors. A cogent rhetorical analysis, Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination engages scholars of the rhetoric of science, technology, and new and digital media, but it is also accessible to the general public interested in debates over hurricane preparedness and climate change.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498557184
ISBN-10: 149855718X
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 160 x 235 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Why Computer Simulations Need Rhetorical Intervention Chapter 2: The Rhetorical Situation of Simulations Chapter 3: Simulations and the Scientific Imagination Chapter 4: Rhetorical Strategies of Simulated Evidence Chapter 5: Social Dimensions of Simulated Meaning Chapter 6: The Rhetoric of Simulations in the News Chapter 7: Conclusion

Notă biografică

By Aimee Kendall Roundtree

Descriere

The book investigates the rhetorical nature of scientific computer simulations, and it discusses the implications of those rhetorical strategies for how we understand, use and evaluate simulated evidence in the real world.