PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS IN MODELING POLARIZATION: NOTES FROM WORK IN PROGRESS color illustrations & animations
Patrick Grim,1, 2, Aaron Bramson,2, 3 Daniel J. Singer,3 Steven Fisher,2 Carissa Flocken5 & William Berger6






Histograms and networks constructed to match degree distributions drawn from data within the Black and White communities, Pittsburgh Random Household Health Survey
(Grim, Thomas, Fisher, Reade, Singer, Garza, Fryer, & Chatman, 2012a, 2012b)



1Group for Logic & Formal Semantics, Philosophy, Stony Brook University
2Center for Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
3Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan
5Honors Program, University of Michigan
6Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
pgrim@notes.cc.sunysb.edu