{
  "id": "an-instrument-for-what-digital-computers-simulation-and-scientific-pract-13765",
  "type": "article-journal",
  "title": "An Instrument for What? Digital Computers, Simulation and Scientific Practice",
  "author": [
    {
      "literal": "Wendy S. Parker"
    }
  ],
  "container-title": "Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science",
  "volume": "4",
  "issue": "1",
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2010,
        8,
        9
      ]
    ]
  },
  "URL": "https://spontaneousgenerations.com/articles/an-instrument-for-what-digital-computers-simulation-and-scientific-pract-13765/",
  "page": "39-44",
  "DOI": "10.4245/sponge.v4i1.13765",
  "abstract": "As a device used by scientists in the course of performing research, the digital computer might be considered a scientific instrument. But if so, what is it an instrument for? This paper explores a number of answers to this question, focusing on the use of computers in a simulating mode."
}