数值实验

IF 0.5 3区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

Philosophical Papers Pub Date : 2019-03-21 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780199334872.003.0005

P. Humphreys

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引用次数: 9

摘要

我认为，数值实验的计算模型构成了一种独特的新型科学方法，介于经验实验和分析理论之间。用科学仪器扩展我们的感官和用计算仪器扩展我们的数学能力之间也有相似之处。详细描述了这些方法在使用Metropolis算法的Ising模型中的具体应用。最后，有人认为，什么是可观察的，什么是可计算的，是双重偶然的，不是固定的，取决于当前的技术状态和世界的方式。

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Numerical Experimentation

I argue here that the computational models of numerical experimentation constitute a distinctively new kind of scientific method, intermediate in kind between empirical experimentation and analytic theory. A parallel is also drawn between extending our senses with scientific instruments and extending our mathematical powers by using computational instruments. A specific application of these methods to Ising Models using the Metropolis algorithm is described in detail. Finally, it is argued that what counts as observable, or what counts as computable, is doubly contingent and is not fixed, being dependent upon the current state of technology and the way the world is.

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