Chapter 1 Human Simulation: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Studying Societal Problems

Chapter 2 Ethics, Computer Simulation, and the Future of Humanity

Chapter 3 Pitfalls in the Development of Agent-Based Models in Social Sciences: Avoiding Them and Learning from Them

Chapter 4 Understanding Epistemological Debates in the Humanities and Social Sciences Can Aid in Model Development: Modeling Interpretive and Explanatory Theories

Chapter 5 Modeling Theories and Modeling Phenomena: A Humanist’s Initiation

Chapter 6 Language Learning Following Immigration: Modeling Choices and Challenges

Chapter 7 Modeling Models: Documentary Filmmaking as a Purposeful Abstraction of the Modeling Process

Chapter 8 Modeling and Simulation as a Pedagogical and Heuristic Tool for Developing Theories in Cognitive Science: An Example from Ritual Competence Theory

Chapter 9 Religion, Empathy, and Cooperation: A Case Study in the Promises and Challenges of Modeling and Simulation

Chapter 10 Minority Integration in a Western City: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach

Chapter 11 Mobility in Crisis: An Agent-Based Model of Refugees’ Flight to Safety

Chapter 12 Simulating Religions as Adaptive Systems