Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)
Capstone course: Reasoning with Models
Below is a breakdown of the assignment I’ve copied from the assignment description document:
1. Within your home discipline,” find a scholarly controversy or debate about some issue.
2. Find at least two (2) papers within that debate. Obviously, these papers should represent at least two positions within the debate. They should disagree with one another.
What strategies are used to answer the research question you’re considering?
In detail:
How do they understand the issue? What kind of models do they use? What kinds of causal relationships are at issue? What kinds of data are used? Are the models idealized? How? Do different sides of the controversy take different strategies? Why?
