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(2008) Synthese 163 (3).
After showing how Deborah Mayo’s error-statistical philosophy of science might be applied to address important questions about the evidential status of computer simulation results, I argue that an error-statistical perspective offers an interesting new way of thinking about computer simulation models and has the potential to significantly improve the practice of simulation model evaluation. Though intended primarily as a contribution to the epistemology of simulation, the analysis also serves to fill in details of Mayo’s epistemology of experiment.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-007-9296-0
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Parker, W. S. (2008). Computer simulation through an error-statistical lens. Synthese 163 (3), pp. 371-384.
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