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In fact, at some points, they seem to imply that experimental philosophy is a science as well: “Our aims specific to this book are to introduce a new experimental science—the evolutionary social simulation of ethics, to justify its use as an empirical method, and to describe and illustrate its advantages” (3).
To be clear, I am not including the discussions of group selection that appear in chapters five and six. What is missing is an acknowledgement and analysis of the extensive empirical evidence and case studies on aging, rape, suicide, and abortion as topics in themselves.
There are other approaches to validation that are possible that Mascaro et al. do not mention. For example, one might want to use a simulation simply to predict an outcome, so that its validation could consist simply in determining its reliability and not the correspondence of its structure to the real process.
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Weisberg, Michael, and Ryan Muldoon. 2009. Epistemic landscapes and the division of cognitive labor. Philosophy of Science 76: 225–252.
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Sterner, B. Agent-based computer simulation and ethics. Metascience 21, 403–407 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-012-9660-7
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