Murat Bakeev and @belewollesen.bsky.social presented their research at the Hannover-Groningen Workshop on #philsci at @rug.nl joined by friends from @mapsproject.bsky.social @iphilluh.bsky.social and researchers from Groningen, where the cherry trees are now in bloom!
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Melinda recently presented this work at our work-in-progress seminar, sharing insights on explanatory particularism and its implications for model transfer. Do check out her book (and this review)!
The economics Nobel Laureate Al Roth on my book👇. Check out my conversation with him on his work on mechanism design: marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-ph...
Thanks so much for coming to Hannover!
Thanks to all speakers, presenters, guests & helpers for making this event (organized by Edoardo & me) possible. I have learned so much and even more to think about. Very stimulating!
Closing remarks by Edoardo Peruzzi and Karim Baraghith (@karimbaraghith.bsky.social)
You can check out the book of abstracts here: www.model-transfer.uni-hannover.de/en/news-and-...
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In the final talk of the workshop, Lena Zuchowski draws on case studies from epidemiology and geomorphology to identify the epistemic, institutional, and methodological obstacles to integrative modeling, such as coupling uncertainties, disciplinary divides, and scale-related challenges
@martinpalecek.bsky.social gave a talk, prepared with Mark Risjord, that challenges the "one-theory temptation" in cultural evolutionary science, arguing instead for epistemic integration through a knowledge base comprising working generalizations, existence claims, and reusable modeling templates
In the first talk after lunch, @juliejebeile.bsky.social proposed examining model transfer through the lens of idealizations, suggesting that what is often transferred is an idealization itself, used as a tool to transform descriptions into calculation devices and applicable across various domains
Check out my interview with Colin Camerer! So engaging to talk to him 👇 and, of course, have a look at the whole book. It finally exists 🔥
The poster by @jsn68.bsky.social presents an account of cultural evolution inspired by neurocognitive models of predictive processing and active inference, as well as approaches from theoretical immunology, drawing on his recent monograph (www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...)
Iuris's poster, "From Genes to Cultural Features: Ontological Conditions for Model Transfer in Cultural Evolution," examines the challenges of applying models of cultural evolution in archaeology in the absence of adequate conceptual grounding for the selected units of analysis
During lunch, Iuris Mocchiutti and Jesper Sørensen presented their posters to the workshop participants
@lglopez.bsky.social presents a new approach to understanding model transfer, drawing on the concept of ecological niches to define different research contexts for the application of mathematical models
The workshop continues with a talk by @thomasreydon.bsky.social discussing the challenges of explanatory unification across the biological and social sciences based on evolutionary models
We begin the second day of the workshop with a talk by @hanneand.bsky.social on interdisciplinary research, its forms, challenges, and role in scientific progress
The final talk of the first day, by @awschulz.bsky.social, explored differences in the concern for equity between humans and non-humans, highlighting the distinctive mediating role played by abstract moral norms in the case of humans. See you tomorrow!
Christine Caldwell gave a talk in which, drawing on experimental evidence. she explored limits on the applicability of models from genetic evolution to cultural transmission, depending on whether payoffs are determined primarily by external pressures or endogenous coordination benefits
Philipe Barsamian gave a talk, entitled "From Borrowed Templates to Working Models: Stabilization as Policy Settlement in Cultural Evolution"
The workshop continued with a talk by @acerbialberto.com on the cultural ecology of social media, suggesting to take into account producers’ goals when explaining social media dynamics and thus reframing debates on misinformation, radicalisation and polarisation (preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...)
@lucasgautheron.bsky.social gave a talk, prepared with @norijacoby.bsky.social and Hannah Rubin, which examined how popularity feedback can reduce diversity and slow innovation in science, based a large-scale online experiment (see arxiv.org/abs/2602.09997). We'll continue after the lunch break!
@matcharbonneau.bsky.social continued the workshop with a talk arguing that human problem-solving can be understood through cultural evolution theory, and outlining an appropriate transfer strategy between biological evolution and the evolution of problem-representation spaces
@cherfeld.bsky.social and Edoardo Peruzzi gave the first talk, presenting an account of model transfer as model construction and outlining a taxonomy of these construction processes, illustrated with examples of model transfers from across scientific disciplines
In this thread, we’ll be live-posting highlights from the “Scientific Progress via Model Transfer: The Case of Cultural Evolution” workshop talks. Follow along for updates 👇
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The workshop "Scientific Progress via Model Transfer: The Case of Cultural Evolution", organized by @karimbaraghith.bsky.social and our team member Edoardo Peruzzi (co-financed by @erc.europa.eu and @dfg.de), has just begun!
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See link below for details ⬇️
The latest paper of our team member Edoardo Peruzzi is now available open access in Synthese. He argues that legal cross-examination can be undestood as a form of higher-order evidence defeat:
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Our intensive week of collaborative writing has come to a close, and the format has proven fruitful so far.
Focused group work!
The workshop is incredibly fun! So far, we explored general motivations for values in science research in economics, the relevance of of epistemic and non-epistemic values distinction in econ, the link between certain epistemic values and systematic biases, ways to categorize values and more.