Understanding Society

When we think of the issues of health and safety that exist in a modern complex economy, it is impossible to imagine that these social good...

How can industries involving processes that create large risks of harm for individuals or populations be modified so they are more capab...

Let's think again about the semantics of causal ascriptions. Suppose that we want to know what  caused a building crane to collapse ...

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan hosted an intensive day-long training on some of the basics of...

image: diagram of molten salt reactor Organizational and regulatory features are sometimes part of the causal background of important ...

Groups make decisions through processes of discussion aimed at framing a given problem, outlining the group's objectives, and arrivi...

Is it possible to elucidate complex social outcomes using computational tools? Can we overcome some of the issues for social explanatio...

diagrams: Chernobyl reactor before and after Nuclear fission is one of the world-changing discoveries of the mid-twentieth century....

Paul Churchland made a large splash in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science several decades ago when he cast doubt on the catego...

Odd Arne Westad's The Cold War: A World History  is a fascinating counterpoint to Tony Judt's Postwar: A History of Europe Since...