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Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation III: An introduction

Simulation in the social sciences is a diverse and multidisciplinary field that has been growing impressively since the 1990s. While simulation is opening new horizons for investigating systems that traditional scientific approaches were not able to address, a whole set of epistemological puzzles is emerging in the area, which brings the philosophy of simulation to a higher level of attention. The recognition that progress in simulation must go hand-in-hand with the analysis of its epistemological status has been an important motive for the series of EPOS workshops that have been taking place since 2004 (see Frank and Troitzsch 2005; Squazzoni 2009).