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28Economics as Hermeneutics: Rationality and Explanation in Economics, Maurice Lagueux. Routledge, 2010. xx + 275 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 27 (2): 203-208. 2011.
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20Economic models and their flexible interpretations: a philosophy of science perspectiveJournal of Economic Methodology 1-8. forthcoming.We mobilise contemporary philosophy of science to further clarify observations on economic modelling made by Gilboa et al. (2023). We adopt a normative stance towards these modelling practices to identify the extent to which they are epistemically justified. Our message is simple: many of the distinctions proposed by Gilboa et al. (2023) are useful, but without the proper qualifications, too much flexibility in choosing the right interpretation risks downplaying the crucial role that empirical e…Read more
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20Broadening the Perspective: Epistemic, Social, and Historical Aspects of Scientific ModellingPerspectives on Science 23 (4): 381-385. 2015.The recognition that models and simulations play a central role in the epistemology of science is about fifteen years old. Although models had long been discussed as possible foundational units in the logical analysis of scientific knowledge, the philosophical study of modelling as a distinct epistemic practice really got going in the wake of the Models as Mediators anthology edited by Margaret Morrison and Mary Morgan. In spite of the broad agreement that in fact much of science is model-based,…Read more
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18The division of cognitive labor and the structure of interdisciplinary problemsSynthese 201 (6): 1-20. 2023.Interdisciplinarity is strongly promoted in science policy across the world. It is seen as a necessary condition for providing practical solutions to many pressing complex problems for which no single disciplinary approach is adequate alone. In this article we model multi- and interdisciplinary research as an instance of collective problem solving. Our goal is to provide a basic representation of this type of problem solving and chart the epistemic benefits and costs of researchers engaging in d…Read more
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15Evidential Variety and Mixed Methods Research in Social SciencePhilosophy of Science 1-15. forthcoming.Mixed methods research - the combination of qualitative and quantitative data within the same design to strengthen causal inference - is gaining prominence in the social sciences but its benefits are contested. There remains confusion over which methods to mix and what is the point of mixing them. We argue that variety of evidence is what matters, not the data or methods, and that distinct epistemic principles underlie its added value for causal inference. The centrality of evidential variety al…Read more
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13Explaining with equilibria68In Johannes Persson & Petri Ylikoski (eds.), Rethinking Explanation, Springer. pp. 149--162. 2007.
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8The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem SolvingPhilosophy of Science 88 (5): 894-905. 2021.According to the diversity-beats-ability theorem, groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers. We argue that the model introduced by Lu Hong and Scott Page is inadequate for exploring the trade-off between diversity and ability. This is because the model employs an impoverished implementation of the problem-solving task. We present a new version of the model that captures the role of ‘ability’ in a meaningful way, and we use it to explore the trade-off…Read more
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6Lawrence A. Boland's Model building in economics: its purposes and limitations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, 298 pp (review)Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 8 (2): 111. 2015.
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Kokeellinen yhteiskuntatiedeIn Tuukka Kaidesoja, Tomi Kankainen & Petri Ylikoski (eds.), Syistä selityksiin. Kausaalisuus ja selittäminen yhteiskuntatieteissä, Gaudeamus. pp. 279-307. 2018.Tässä luvussa tarkastelemme hypoteesien testaamista ja kokeellista kausaalista järkeilyä tieteenfilosofisesta näkökulmasta. Arvioimme kokeellisen menetelmän mahdollisuuksia ja rajoituksia yhteiskuntatieteellisen tutkimuksen kontekstissa, jossa luonnontieteille ominaisia yleispäteviä teorioita harvoin on saatavilla ja jossa suoraviivaisiin kausaaliväitteisiin suhtaudutaan usein epäillen. Tämä luku ei siis ole menetelmäopas, joka kädestä pitäen opastaisi, kuinka yhteiskuntatieteellisiä kokeita tul…Read more
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Action, Value and Metaphysics - Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Finland Colloquium 2018, Acta Philosophica Fennica 94 (edited book)Societas Philosophica Fennica. 2018.
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Mixed methods research and the variety of evidence in political scienceIn Harold Kincaid & Jeroen van Bouwel (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science, Oxford University Press. 2023.
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University of HelsinkiDepartment of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy in Swedish)Professor