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Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination: How Virtual Evidence Shapes Science in the Making and in the News by Aimee Kendall Roundtree (Hardback, 2013)
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Computer simulations help advance climatology, astrophysics, and other scientific disciplines. They are also at the crux of several high-profile cases of science in the news. What is the nature of simulated evidence, and how do we evaluate its strength?.
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Computer simulations help advance climatology, astrophysics, and other scientific disciplines. They are also at the crux of several high-profile cases of science in the news. How do simulation scientists, with little or direct observations, make decisions about what to represent? What is the nature of simulated evidence, and how do we evaluate its strength? Aimee Kendall Roundtree suggests answers in Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination. She interprets simulations in the sciences by uncovering the argumentative strategies that underpin the production and dissemination of simulated findings. She also explains how subjective and social influences do t diminish simulations' virtue or power to represent the real thing. Along the way, Roundtree situates computer simulations within the scientific imagination alongside paradoxes, thought experiments, and metaphors. A cogent rhetorical analysis, Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination engages scholars of the rhetoric of science, techlogy, and new and digital media, but it is also accessible to the general public interested in debates over hurricane preparedness and climate change.Product Identifiers
PublisherLexington Books
ISBN-100739175564
ISBN-139780739175569
eBay Product ID (ePID)183808761
Product Key Features
SubjectComputing: Professional & Programming
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorAimee Kendall Roundtree
FormatHardback
Dimensions
Height235mm
Width159mm
Weight358g
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication11/12/2013
Place of PublicationLanham, Md
Spine16mm
Country of PublicationUnited States
GenreComputing: Professional & Programming
Author BiographyAimee Kendall Roundtree is associate professor of Professional Writing and Technical Communication at the University of Houston-Downtown.
Content Note6 Black & White Illustrations, 2 Tables
