Modelling Scientific Communities

by Cailin O'Connor

This Element will overview research using models to understand scientific practice. Models are useful for reasoning about groups and processes that are complicated and distributed across time and space, i.e., those that are difficult to study using empirical methods alone. Science fits this picture. For this reason, it is no surprise that researchers have turned to models over the last few decades to study various features of science. The different...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009454080
• ISBN13: 9781009454087
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"