Make love, not models

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Chapter 28 in The Atlas of Social Complexity, 2024, pp 389-398 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy; Teaching Methods; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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