Truth, Trust, and Turing - Implications for Modeling and Simulation

Abstract

This chapter has been written as the introduction to the book "Ontology, Epistemology, and Teleology of Modeling and Simulation - Philosophical Foundations for Intelligent M&S Applications." It covers the main ideas important for modeling and simulation regarding its philosophical, computational, and conceptual aspects. What exists, how we come to know, and what we do with the knowledge are the guiding questions when the key terms are evaluated in the light of positivism, rationalism, and constructivism. Implications for a canon of research are described, and the constraints for modeling and simulation regarding truth, trust, and computability are derived. A short summary of the chapter contributions in the light of these ideas ends the chapter. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.