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Make love, not models

In: The Atlas of Social Complexity

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This chapter is for those interested in the philosophy of methods. It contests how a certain ‘naturalizing’ or ‘physical-computational science’ approach to modelling complexity - which tends toward the impractical - is privileged in the complexity sciences at the expense of other methods. It points to a much deeper set of epistemological problems, which risk putting the complexity sciences out of touch with complex social reality instead of understanding it better. After explaining just what this approach to modelling is about, epistemologically speaking, the chapter ends by deconstructing the field of social physics, which exemplifies the problems with conventional computational modelling.

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  • ., 2024. "Make love, not models," Chapters, in: The Atlas of Social Complexity, chapter 28, pages 389-398, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:19387_28
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