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James Owen Weatherall

    James Owen Weatherall es un físico, filósofo y matemático cuyo trabajo profundiza en las conexiones trascendentales entre la ciencia y la filosofía. Explora cómo los conceptos matemáticos dan forma a nuestra comprensión del universo y cómo las preguntas filosóficas influyen en el progreso científico. La escritura de Weatherall se distingue por su claridad y su habilidad para hacer accesibles las ideas complejas a una audiencia amplia.

    The Physics of Wall Street
    Modelling Scientific Communities
    • Modelling Scientific Communities

      • 75 páginas
      • 3 horas de lectura

      This Element will overview research using models to understand scientific practice. It argues that while these models are epistemically useful, the best way to employ most of them to understand and improve science is in combination with empirical methods and other sorts of theorizing.

      Modelling Scientific Communities
      4,0
    • The Physics of Wall Street

      • 304 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      A Harvard scholar argues that mathematical models can provide solutions to current economic challenges, explaining that the economic meltdown of 2008 was based on a misunderstanding of scientific models rather than on the models themselves.

      The Physics of Wall Street
      4,0