Simulated Experiments: Methodology for a Virtual World

By Eric Winsberg. Philosophia Scientiæ, 2003

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Societal threat and cultural variation in the strength of social norms: An evolutionary basis (2015, neutral): “The basic effects of various factors on evolutionary outcomes can be tested through ''virtual experimentation'' by computer simulation (Winsberg, 2003), and support for causal relationships between these factors and outcomes can be established.”
Acting, predicting and intervening in a socio-hydrological world (2013, background): “…even to the point that “the credibility of a model comes not only from the credentials supplied to it by the governing theory, but also from the antecedently established credentials of the model building techniques developed over an extended tradition of employment . . . ” (Winsberg, 2003).”