Value of cognitive diversity in science.
When should a scientific community be cognitively diverse? This article presents a model for studying how the heterogeneity of learning heuristics used by scientist agents affects the epistemic efficiency of a scientific community. By extending the epistemic landscapes modeling approach introduced b...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 194; no. 11; pp. 4519 - 4541 |
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