Social scientists use many different methods, and there are often substantial disagreements
about which method is appropriate for a given research question. In response to this …

The diversity principle—the intuitive notion that diverse evidence is, all else equal, more
persuasive, suggestive, confirmatory, or otherwise better than less varied sets of evidence …

Robustness arguments hold that hypotheses are more likely to be true when they are
confirmed by diverse kinds of evidence. Robustness arguments require the confirming …

According to an influential Enlightenment ideal, one shouldn't rely epistemically on other
people's say‐so, at least not if one is in a position to evaluate the relevant evidence for …

Diversity of evidence is widely claimed to be crucial for evidence amalgamation to have
distinctive epistemic merits. Bayesian epistemologists capture this idea in the variety-of …

Mixed-methods research (MMR)—the combination of qualitative and quantitative data within
the same design to strengthen causal inference—is gaining prominence in the social …

Varied evidence confirms more strongly than less varied evidence, ceteris paribus. This
epistemological Variety of Evidence Thesis enjoys widespread intuitive support. We put …

Amalgamating evidence from heterogeneous sources and across levels of inquiry is
becoming increasingly important in many pure and applied sciences. This special issue …

Some authors claim that minimal models have limited epistemic value (Fumagalli,; Grüne-
Yanoff,). Others defend the epistemic benefits of modelling by invoking the role of …

Abstract The intuitive Variety of Evidence Thesis states that, ceteris paribus, more varied
evidence for a hypothesis confirms it more strongly than less varied evidence. Recent …