Reconstructing Reality
Yuri Rodrigues
Margaret Morrison // Reconstructing Reality
Reviewed by Alexander Reutlinger and Stephan Hartmann
Reconstructing Reality: Models, Mathematics, and Simulations
Margaret Morrison
New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, £44.49 (hardback)
ISBN 9780199380275
In her new book Reconstructing Reality (henceforth RR), Margaret Morrison’s main target is the kind of information about the world (or, more specifically, about physical and biological systems) one can extract from the ‘reconstructive methods and practices of science’ (p. 1). To address this, Morrison focuses on three central kinds of interrelated strategies for ‘recasting nature’ (p. 2) by using reconstructive methods and practices: (i) abstract mathematical explanations and understanding (Part 1 of the book), (ii) scientific models (Part 2), and (iii) computer simulations (Part 3). Hence, RR is the ambitious attempt to connect and analyse three major topics in current philosophy of science.
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