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Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination
How Virtual Evidence Shapes Science in the Making and in the News
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11.12.2013
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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. How do simulation scientists, with little or no 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 not 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, technology, and new and digital media, but it is also accessible to the general public interested in debates over hurricane preparedness and climate change.
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2013
Publication date
11.12.2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7556-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7557-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
130
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1 Why Computer Simulations Need Rhetorical Intervention No access Pages 1 - 8
2 The Rhetorical Situation of Simulations No access Pages 9 - 18
3 Simulations and the Scientific Imagination No access Pages 19 - 38
4 Rhetorical Strategies of Simulated Evidence No access Pages 39 - 66
5 Social Dimensions of Simulation Meaning No access Pages 67 - 84
6 The Rhetoric of Simulation in the News No access Pages 85 - 104
Conclusion No access Pages 105 - 116
Bibliography No access Pages 117 - 126
Index No access Pages 127 - 130
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