Psychologists among other behavioural scientists refer to the tendency of favouring, interpreting, and searching for information that supports one’s prior beliefs as confirmation bias. Given relevance topic field, we develop a small-scale agent-based model in discrete-time investigate how employment conditions affect attitudes towards climate policies under such cognitive Our narrative resemble...

The account of natural kinds as stable property clusters is premised on the possibility separating epistemic value from their underlying metaphysics. On that account, (i) co-instantiation any sub-cluster properties associated with a given kind raises probability rest, and (ii) this clustering instantiation invariant under all relevant counterfactual perturbations. We argue it not possible to ev...