Computer simulations help advance climatology, astrophysics, and other scientific
disciplines. They are also at the crux of several high-profile cases of science in the news.
How do simulation scientists, with little or no direct observations, make decisions about what
to represent? What is the nature of simulated evidence, and how do we evaluate its
strength? Aimee Kendall Roundtree suggests answers in Computer Simulation, Rhetoric,
and the Scientific Imagination. She interprets simulations in the sciences by uncovering the …

Coming on the heels of recent scholarship investigating scientific discourse in public
contexts, Aimee Kendall Roundtree's Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific
Imagination is a timely exploration of computer simulation in scientific argument. The book is
a needed foundation for future investigations into simulations and their construction and
function in professional, scientific discourse as well as how simulations are used and
discussed in public debates about climate change and other contentious scientific and …