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Nuance is not a virtue of good sociological theory. Although often demanded and superficially attractive, nuance inhibits the abstraction on which good theory d...

A clear, concise introduction to the quickly growing field of complexity science that explains its conceptual and mathematical foundations What is a complex ...

When Climate Models Agree: The Significance of Robust Model Predictions - Volume 78 Issue 4

Abstract. I define ‘philosophical scepticism’ as the view that philosophers do not and cannot know many of the substantive philosophical claims that they m

Nancy Cartwright, Causal Laws and Effective Strategies, Noûs, Vol. 13, No. 4, Special Issue on Counterfactuals and Laws (Nov., 1979), pp. 419-437

Lloyd (2009) contends that climate models are confirmed by various instances of fit between their output and observational data. The present paper argues that what these instances of fit might confir....

Population axiology is the study of the conditions under which one state of affairs is better than another, when the states of affairs in question may differ over the numbers and the identities of th....

This article is a mutual introduction of the science of well-being to philosophy of science and an explanation of how the two disciplines can benefit each other. In the process, I argue that the scie....

Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject.Innovation is the main event of the m...

Models Of and Models For: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Biology - Volume 67 Issue S3

Models as Mediators - October 1999

Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction is the first systematic textbook in the philosophy of economics. It introduces the epistemological, metaphysical and ethical problems that arise in...

Lorraine Daston, The Moral Economy of Science, Osiris, Vol. 10, Constructing Knowledge in the History of Science (1995), pp. 2-24

Histoire d'une science impossible, Éditions de la Sorbonne (Gauvain Leconte-Chevillard)

How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences? According to the model of Inference to the Best Explanation, we work out what to infer from the evidence by thinking ab...

To imagine is to represent without aiming at things as they actually, presently, and subjectively are. One can use imagination to represent possibilities other than the actual, to represent times other than the present, and to represent perspectives other than one’s own. Unlike perceiving and believing, imagining something does not require one to consider that something to be the case. Unlike desiring or anticipating, imagining something does not require one to wish or expect that something to be the case.

A flexible and comprehensive introduction to the main currents in philosophy of science., Philosophy of Science, The Central Issues, J. A. Cover, Martin Curd, Christopher Pincock, 9780393919035