Naturalizing the essential tension.

Kuhn’s “essential tension” between conservative and innovative imperatives in enquiry has an empirical analogue—between the potential benefits of collectivization of enquiry and the social dynamic impediments to effective sharing of information and insights in collective settings. A range of empiric...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 162; no. 2; pp. 275 - 309
Main Author:	D’Agostino, Fred
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature May2008
Subjects:	Kuhn, Thomas S., 1922-1996 Social epistemology Theory of knowledge Social comparison Bounded rationality
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