Models as Make-Believe: Imagination, Fiction and Scientific Representation

By Adam Toon

Scientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific models by comparing them to the dolls and toy trucks of children's imaginative games, and offers a unified framework to solve difficult metaphysical problems and help to make sense of scientific practice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349336874
• ISBN13: 9781349336876
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"