The topic of this clearly written and well-documented text is the philosophical concept of emergence... Imaginative defences of philosophical realism are certainly to be applauded, and given the critical role that mathematical modelling occupies in both scientific and technical practices today, questioning computer simulation is undoubtedly important. Philosophy and Simulation does an interesting job of the former via the latter.

Radical Philosophy

There is much fascinating material to chew on.

The Guardian

The thirst for knowledge ... is competently soothed by Bloomsbury with the volume Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason, which provides useful material against the celebration of ignorance.

Il Sole 24 Ore (Bloomsbury Translation)

The book offers fascinating material to read ... [and] introduces numerous thought-stimulating ideas.

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Stimulation

Recommended in The Guardian's 'Books of the Year 2011' article. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/25/books-of-the-year?INTCMP=SRCH

Philosophy and Simulation is a book about affection - the capacity to affect and be affected by others - an organon for a non-reductive and emergent Theory of Everything, running from inorganic matter to the dawn of civilisation. Moving elegantly between science, history and computer simulation, the book is a fascinating and enormously wide-ranging introduction to DeLanda's singular world-view. - Andrew Pickering, Professor of Sociology and Philosophy, Exeter University, UK