Long records often show large earthquakes occurring in supercycles, sequences of
temporal clusters of seismicity, cumulative displacement, and cumulative strain release …

Models are of central importance in many scientific contexts. The centrality of models such
as inflationary models in cosmology, general-circulation models of the global climate, the …

In this paper, I review the literature on rational choice theory (RCT) to scrutinize a number of
criticisms that philosophers have voiced against its usefulness in economics. The paper has …

Simple idealized models seem to provide more understanding than opaque, complex, and
hyper-realistic models. However, an increasing number of scientists are going in the …

Models matter. Scientists spend much effort on constructing, improving, and testing models,
and countless pages in scientific journals are filled with descriptions of models and their …

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become increasingly successful in applications from
biology to cosmology to social science. Trained DNNs, moreover, correspond to models that …

Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an
instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fallen out of favour because historically …

Robert W. Batterman's monograph examines a ubiquitous methodology in physics and the
science of materials that has virtually been ignored in the philosophical literature. This …

Enaction is an increasingly influential approach to cognition that grew out of Maturana and
Varela's earlier work on autopoiesis and the biology of cognition. As with any relatively new …

Across income groups and countries, individual citizens perceive economic inequality
spectacularly wrong. These misperceptions have far-reaching consequences, as it might be …