Conformity in scientific networks.
Scientists are generally subject to social pressures, including pressures to conform with others in their communities, that affect achievement of their epistemic goals. Here we analyze a network epistemology model in which agents, all else being equal, prefer to take actions that conform with those...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 198; no. 8; pp. 7257 - 7279 |
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Aug2021
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