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The nature and function of models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2002

Ronald N. Giere
Ronald N. Giere
Affiliation:
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 [email protected] http://www.tc.umn.edu/~giere/
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Abstract

There is no best scientific model of anything; there are only models more or less good for different purposes. Thus, there is no general answer to the question of whether one should model biological behavior using computer simulations or robots. It all depends on what one wants to learn. This is not a question about models, but about scientific goals.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , December 2001 , pp. 1060
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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