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82Altruism, egoism, or neither: A cognitive-efficiency-based evolutionary biological perspective on helping behaviorStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 56 15-23. 2016.
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112The Heuristic Defense of Scientific Models: An Incentive-Based AssessmentPerspectives on Science 23 (4): 424-442. 2015.It is undeniable that much scientific work is model-based. Despite this, the justification for this reliance on models is still controversial. A particular difficulty here is the fact that many scientific models are based on assumptions that do not describe the exact details of many or even any empirical situations very well. This raises the question of why it is that, despite their frequent lack of descriptive accuracy, employing models is scientifically useful.One..