One puzzle concerning highly idealized models is whether they explain. Some suggest they
provide so-called 'how-possibly explanations'. However, this raises an important question …

Collaborative research has become increasingly prominent since the mid-20th century. This
article aspires to offer a fundamental ontology of a multidisciplinary research system. As a …

This essay is a review of the recent literature on the methodology of economics, with a focus
on three broad trends that have defined the core lines of research within the discipline …

How can we use models to understand real phenomena if models misrepresent the very
phenomena we seek to understand? Some accounts suggest that models may afford …

Philosophers of science typically focus on the epistemic performance of scientific models
when evaluating them. Analysing the effects that models may have on the world has typically …

Discussions in the literature on economic methodology often do not explicitly concern
explanation. The goal of this chapter is to show that, often implicitly, some key discussions …

This article maintains that an important class of scientific generalizations should be
reinterpreted: they have typically been understood as ceteris paribus laws, but are, in fact …

This chapter has three purposes: first, to briefly outline corporate venturing as a sub-field in
corporate entrepreneurship that recently has gained prominence in research on family …

In this chapter, we introduce topics in finance and financial economics that should be of
interest to philosophers of science and philosophers of economics, in particular. The chapter …

In this paper, I offer an account of propositional learning: namely, learning that p. I argue for
what I call the “Three Transitions Thesis” or “TTT” according to which four states and three …