Research

• Confirmation Bias and Group Learning: an Agent Based Model Nathan Gabriel — Agent-Based Modeling for Research on Groups, Networks, and Organizations, forthcoming Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Why Natural Social Contracts are Not Fair New Social Contract Theory, forthcoming Modeling Inequality
• Are Widely Known Findings Easier to Retract? Shahan Ali Memon and Jevin West — Philosophy of Science, forthcoming Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• The Cultural Evolution of Science Jingyi Wu and Paul Smaldino — The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, forthcoming Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Industrial Distraction David Freeborn — Philosophy of Science, 2025 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Networks and Values Rebecca Korf — The Routledge Handbook for Value in Science, 2025 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Learning in Crawford-Sobel Signaling Games The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2025 Vagueness
• On the Stability of Racial Capitalism Liam K. Bright, Nathan Gabriel, and Olufemi Taiwo — Ergo, 2025 Modeling Inequality
• Fairness and Signaling in Bargaining Games Mihaela Popa-Wyatt, Roland Muhlenbernd, and Jeremy L. Wyatt — Economics and Philosophy, 2025 Modeling Inequality
• Fake News! James Weatherall — Philosophy Compass, 2024 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Can Confirmation Bias Improve Group Learning? Nathan Gabriel — Philosophy of Science, 2024 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Towards an Understanding of Collective Intellectual Humility 12 interdisciplinary authors — Trends in Cognitive Science, 2024 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Social Epistemology Sandy Goldberg (previous version with Alvin Goldman) — The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2019, 2024 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Moral Judgments Impact Perceived Risks from COVID-19 Exposure Daniel P. Relihan, Ashley Thomas, Peter H. Ditto, P. Kyle Stanford, and James O. Weatherall — Collabra, 2023 Experimental Philosophy
• How Should We Promote Transient Diversity in Science? Jingyi Wu — Synthese, 2023 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Methods, Models, and the Evolution of Moral Psychology Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, 2022 Moral Emotions and Naturalized Ethics
• Power By Association Travis Lacroix — Ergo, 2022 Modeling Inequality
• Promoting Diverse Collaborations Michael Schneider and Hannah Rubin — In The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science, 2022 Modeling Inequality
• The Best Paper You’ll Read Today: Media Bias and the Public Understanding of Science Aydin Mohseni and James Weatherall — Philosophical Topics, 2022 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Interdisciplinarity Can Aid the Spread of Better Methods Between Scientific Communities Paul Smaldino — Collective Intelligence, 2022 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Measuring Conventionality Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2021 Modeling Inequality
• The Dynamics of Retraction in Epistemic Networks Travis LaCroix and Anders Geil — Philosophy of Science, 2021 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Modeling Minimal Conditions for Social Ills Working Paper, 2021 Modeling Inequality
• Modeling How False Beliefs Spread Jim Weatherall — The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology, 2021 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Fair Elections During a Crisis twenty-five interdisciplinary authors — white paper, 2020 White Papers and Policy Recommendations
• White Paper: Deep Fakery – an Action Plan fifteen interdisciplinary researchers — white paper, 2020 White Papers and Policy Recommendations
• Intellectual Vice and Social Networks Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 2020 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Conformity in Scientific Networks James Owen Weatherall — Synthese, 2020 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization James Owen Weatherall — Synthese, 2020 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Communication without Common Interest: A Signaling Experiment Hannah Rubin, Justin P. Bruner, and Simon Huttegger — Studies in History and Philosophy of Science C, 2020 Experimental Philosophy
• False Beliefs and the Social Structure of Science: Some Models and Case Studies James Owen Weatherall — In Groupthink in Science, 2020 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Technology and Democracy twelve interdisciplinary authors — science for policy report for the JRC, the European Commission's knowledge service, 2020 White Papers and Policy Recommendations
• Review of Samir Okasha’s Agents and Goals in Evolution Philosophy of Science, 2020 Reviews
• The Natural Selection of Conservative Science Studies in History and Philosophy of Science A, 2019 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• The Emergence of Intersectional Disadvantage Liam K. Bright and Justin P. Bruner — Social Epistemology, 2019 Modeling Inequality
• Inequality and Inequity in the Emergence of Conventions Calvin Cochran — Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, 2019 Modeling Inequality
• On the Emergence of Minority Disadvantage: Testing the Red King Hypothesis Aydin Mohseni and Hannah Rubin — Synthese, 2019 Experimental Philosophy
• Experimental Economics for Philosophers Hannah Rubin and Justin Bruner — in Methodological Advances in Experimental Philosophy, 2019 Experimental Philosophy
• Scientific Polarization James Owen Weatherall — European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2018 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• When it’s Good to Feel Bad: An Evolutionary Model of Guilt and Apology Sarita Rosenstock — Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018 Moral Emotions and Naturalized Ethics
• Discrimination and Collaboration in Science Hannah Rubin — Philosophy of Science, 2018 Modeling Inequality
• How to Beat Science and Influence People James Owen Weatherall and Justin P. Bruner — The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2018 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Power, Bargaining, and Collaboration Justin P. Bruner — in Scientific Collaboration and Collective Knowledge, 2017 Modeling Inequality
• Black Holes, Black-Scholes, and Prairie Voles: an Essay Review of Simulation and Similarity by Michael Weisberg Jim Weatherall — Philosophy of Science, 2017 Reviews
• Evolving to Generalize: Trading Precision for Speed BJPS, 2017 Generalization
• Dynamics and Diversity in Epistemic Communities Justin P. Bruner — Erkenntnis, 2017 Modeling Inequality
• Games and Kinds BJPS, 2017 Categories
• The Cultural Red King Effect Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2017 Modeling Inequality
• In Epistemic Networks, Is Less Really More? Sarita Rosenstock and Justin P. Bruner — Philosophy of Science, 2017 Models of Scientific Communities and Social Epistemology
• Guilt, Games, and Evolution Emotions Researcher, 2016 Moral Emotions and Naturalized Ethics
• Ambiguity is Kinda Good, Sometimes Philosophy of Science, 2015 Vagueness
• Review of Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of Science, 2015 Reviews
• The Evolution of Guilt: a Model Based Approach Philosophy of Science, 2015 Moral Emotions and Naturalized Ethics
• David Lewis in the Lab: Experimental Results on the Emergence of Meaning Justin Bruner, Hannah Rubin, and Simon Huttegger — Synthese, 2014 Experimental Philosophy
• Evolving Perceptual Categories Philosophy of Science, 2014 Categories
• The Evolution of Vagueness Erkenntnis, 2014 Vagueness
• Sexual Selection: a NESCent Catalyst Meeting fifteen interdisciplinary researchers — white paper, 2013 White Papers and Policy Recommendations
• Review of Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Darwinian Populations Philosophy of Science, 2012 Reviews
• Deus Ex Machina: a Cautionary Tale For Naturalists P. Kyle Stanford, Elliott Wagner, and Nathan Fulton — Analyse & Kritik, 2012 Moral Emotions and Naturalized Ethics