Informing Science is the transdiscipline that studies all issues in informing clients. In recent decades, advances in information technologies magnify the impact and importance of this transdiscipline on many fields of study. Yet transdisciplinary research conducted to date tends to be fieldspecific and not well informed by the works conducted in other fields that are also within this same tran...

Models are a principle instrument of modern science. They are built, applied, tested, compared, revised and interpreted in an expansive scientific literature. Throughout this paper, I will argue that models are also a valuable tool for the philosopher of science. In particular, I will discuss how the methodology of Bayesian Networks can elucidate two central problems in the philosophy of scienc...

Haktan Akcin (Lingnan University): “Naturalized metaphysics, modal structuralism, and grounding” I try to clarify the structuralist claim that the world has an objective modal structure with reference to the recent grounding discussions. Against criticisms that the ontological priority relations in OSR are vague, I highlight the scale-relative ontology suggested by Ladyman & Ross. Since structu...