In the previous installment on evaluating scientific models hinted that one standard of evaluation is the degree to which they are broadly applicable in explaining natural phenomena. As mentioned in ...

In recent weeks, I have been promoting the idea that one goal of journalists — and other public writers — during the pandemic and recession is “civic clarity.” This can only be achieved when reporters ...

Cognitive science has increasingly focused on the mechanisms underpinning how humans generate, evaluate and update explanations. Explanatory reasoning—central to learning and inference—involves the ...