After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

Concerns about a crisis of mass irreplicability across scientific fields (“the replication crisis”)
have stimulated a movement for open science, encouraging or even requiring researchers …

Previous simulation models have found positive effects of cognitive diversity on group
performance, but have not explored effects of diversity in demographics (eg, gender …

Modeling and computer simulations, we claim, should be considered core philosophical
methods. More precisely, we will defend two theses. First, philosophers should use …

The article presents an agent-based model (ABM) of scientific interaction aimed at
examining how different degrees of connectedness of scientists impact their efficiency in …

Computational philosophy is the use of mechanized computational techniques to instantiate,
extend, and amplify philosophical research. Computational philosophy is not philosophy of …

Public participation, as a vital way for conflict management, has attracted increasing
attention. Although previous studies have examined the determinants of public participation …

In this paper we examine the epistemic value of highly idealized agent-based models
(ABMs) of social aspects of scientific inquiry. On the one hand, we argue that taking the …

The history of the research on peptic ulcer disease (PUD) is characterized by a premature
abandonment of the bacterial hypothesis, which subsequently had its comeback, leading to …

The paper examines recent developments in agent‐based modeling of scientific inquiry with
a special focus on network epistemology. It provides a survey of different types of ABMs …