Daniel Courgeau

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What is the definition and use of a model-based theory?

There are many definitions of model-based sciences, which have a different philosophical meaning. This is due to the fact that the signification of the term ‘model’ is ambiguous: some of these...

21 January 2018 4,345 3 View

What do you think about the assessment of the validity of retrospective surveys?

Dear Dennis, I am interested in your project on Human memory as we (Michel Poulain, Benoît Riandey, Jean-Marie Firdion and me) undertook An assessment of the validity of retrospective survey...

01 January 2018 7,099 3 View

I hope that your project includes interval-censored longitudinal studies (see my 1996 paper on interval-censored analysis) ?

I have examined different kinds of data collection that produce more fragmented biographical data and call for specific forms of analysis. The paper I wrote with Najim Jamal on: Interval-censored...

24 November 2017 7,263 0 View

What kind of cumulativeness may exist in natural or social science?

In the past cumulativeness in natural science was entirely recognized by the main scientists. For example Newton wrote: If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the...

24 September 2013 6,849 0 View

Why does behavior genetics, which is based on assumptions that are nowadays recognized as incorrect, exert so strong an influence on social scientists?

Ten years ago, I wrote with Atam Vetta a paper on 'Demographic behavior and behavior genetics', which showed clearly that Fisher's assumptions and heritability analysis are based on false...

25 July 2013 1,814 4 View

What are the conditions permitting an international comparison of different kinds of rates?

In social sciences many kinds of rates are estimated but they rarely permit a true international comparison due to the effect of time, space, etc. For example, for internal migration only...

22 April 2013 790 2 View

Is an axiomatic approach to population sciences or demography possible?

We already tried with Robert Franck to find an answer to this question. But if it is clearly possible to give different paradigms for these sciences, a real axiomatic approach is not yet attained...

14 January 2013 7,959 9 View

Is the distinction Aristotle made between monarchy, oligarchy and democracy always true?

Aristotle wrote in Politics III the following sentences: "But there are difficulties about these forms of government, and it will therefore be necessary to state a little more at length the...

01 January 1970 4,462 96 View

Why so many changes occurred since antiquity for the notion of liberty?

While in ancient Israel, in Mesopotamia, and in ancient Egypt they did not seem to have terms like liberty and freedom, these terms appeared in ancient Greece and Rome, around 500 B.C. (Eleutheria...

01 January 1970 7,269 5 View