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Computer simulations are omnipresent media in today’s knowledge production. For scientific endeavors such as the detection of gravitational waves and the exploration of subatomic worlds, simulations are essential; however, the epistemic status of computer simulations is rather controversial as they are neither just theory nor just experiment.

Interferences and Events

On Epistemic Shifts in Physics through Computer Simulations

Computer simulations are omnipresent media in today’s knowledge production. For scientific endeavors such as the detection of gravitational waves and the exploration of subatomic worlds, simulations are essential; however, the epistemic status of computer simulations is rather controversial as they are neither just theory nor just experiment. Therefore, computer simulations have challenged well-established insights and common scientific practices as well as our very understanding of knowledge.

This volume contributes to the ongoing discussion on the epistemic position of computer simulations in a variety of physical disciplines, such as quantum optics, quantum mechanics, and computational physics. Originating from an interdisciplinary event, it shows that accounts of contemporary physics can constructively interfere with media theory, philosophy, and the history of science.

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Publishing Year
2017
Language
English
Pages
182
Print Edition Price
€ 21.90 RRP
License
CC-BY-SA 4.0
ISBNs
978-3-95796-105-1 (Print)
978-3-95796-106-8 (PDF)
978-3-95796-107-5 (epub)
DOI
DOI: 10.14619/022
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The Editors

Dr. Anne Dippel is Ethnographer and Historian at the University of Jena and a MECS Fellow. Amongst other research she does field studies on the production of cosmology between practice and theory in high energy physics. Recent publications are: A. Dippel, S. Fizek, “Ludification of Culture: The Significance of Play and Games in Everyday Practices of the Digital Age,” in Digitalisation: Theories and Concepts for the Empirical Cultural Research, ed. Gertraud Koch (London: Routledge, 2017); A. Dippel, S. Fizek, “Patterns and Traces: Pictures of Images and Collisions in the Physics Lab,” in Spuren: Erzeugung des Dagewesenen, Bildwelten des Wissens: Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch für Bildkritik, Bd. 13 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017).

Anne Dippel's Author Profile

Prof. Dr. Martin Warnke is a MECS Director and works at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His areas of research are the media cultures of computer simulation and digital discourse media for image science. Recent publications are: M. Warnke, “On the Spot: The Double Immersion of Virtual Reality.” in Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media, ed. F. Liptay (Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2016), 205–214; M. Warnke, Theorien des Internet zur Einführung (Hamburg: Junius, 2011).

Martin Warnke's Author Profile