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Modelling and simulation

Modelling and simulation

How scientific models both help and deceive us in decision making

07 Jun 2023

Michela Massimi reviews Escape from Model Land by Erica Thompson

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Human insights Given the inherent limitation to scientific models of, say, climate change or the spread of viruses, it could make sense to get a wider range of people involved when turning the predictions from such models into public policy decisions. (Courtesy: iStock/FotoMaximum)
We live in a society where scientific models surround us. They are used for everything from creating

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Michela Massimi is professor of philosophy of science at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and is affiliated with the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics. She is also the author of Perspectival Realism (Oxford University Press 2022) and is the current president of the Philosophy of Science Association, e-mail michela.massimi@ed.ac.uk, Twitter @p_realism
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