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80A Note on the Nomic Possibility of a Dynamic ShiftErkenntnis 68 (2): 187-190. 2008.In this note, I argue that a dynamically shifted world—i.e. a world identical to our own except for a fixed constant difference in the absolute acceleration of each object—is nomically impossible in a Newtonian world populated by finitely many objects. A dynamic shift however seems to be nomically possible in a world populated by infinitely many objects, but only in a broad sense of nomic possibility.
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79IntroductionSynthese 172 (2): 193-195. 2010.In this paper, I distinguish scientific models in three kinds on the basis of their ontological status—material models, mathematical models and fictional models, and develop and defend an account of fictional models as fictional objects—i.e. abstract objects that stand for possible concrete objects.
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78Inductive risk in macroeconomics: Natural Rate Theory, monetary policy, and the Great Canadian SlumpEconomics and Philosophy 37 (3): 353-375. 2021.This paper has two goals. The first is to fill a gap in the literature on inductive risk by exploring the relevance of the notion of inductive risk to macroeconomics and monetary policy. The second goal is to draw some general lessons about inductive risk from the case discussed. The most important of these lessons is that the notion of inductive risk is no less relevant to the relationship between the proximate and distal goals of policy than it is to the relationship between policies and their…Read more
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59The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. W.W. Norton, 2019, xvi + 232 pp., $27.95 (hbk), ISBN: 9781324002727 (review)Economics and Philosophy 37 (3): 489-494. 2021.
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38The Robot Apocalypse is Already Here (But the Robots Are Not What You Think)The Philosophers' Magazine 54-58. 2021.This essay argues that the modern business corporations are robots that are taking over the world in their single-minded pursuit of their own goals.