Reposted by Daniel S. Brooks
Recently, I went to the Donald Campbell archives to draw out connections between Campbell’s work and Bill Wimsatt’s work on robustness. My paper was just published in the Acta Biotheoretica Festschrift issue (edited by Daniel Brooks and Caitlin Mace).
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William Wimsatt, Donald Campbell, and the Idea of Robustness - Acta Biotheoretica
In this paper, I chart the influence of social scientist Donald Campbell’s work on William Wimsatt’s ideas of robustness reasoning. One reason is that Campbell’s work is less familiar in the broader p...
