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Computer Simulations and Traditional Experimentation: From a Material Point of View
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This work is meant to revisit Francesco Guala’s paper Models, simulations, and experiments. The main intention is to rise some reasonable doubts on the conception of ‘ontological account’ described in his work. Accordingly, I develop my arguments in three (plus one) steps: firstly, I show that his conception of ‘experiment’ is too narrow, suggesting a more accurate version instead. Secondly, I object to his notion of ‘simulation’ and, following Trenholme, I make a further distinction between ‘analogical’ and ‘digital’ simulations. This distinction will also be an enrichment of the concept of ‘experiment’. In addition, I suggest that his notion of ‘computer simulation’ is too narrow as well. All these arguments have the advantage of moving the ‘ontological account’ into a new ontological map, but not getting rid of it. Hence, as a third step I discuss cellular automata as a potential solution of this new problem. Finally, I object to his conception of ‘hybrid simulations’ as another way of misrepresenting computational activity.
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