The Epistemic Benefit of Transient Diversity.
There is growing interest in understanding and eliciting division of labor within groups of scientists. This paper illustrates the need for this division of labor through a historical example, and a formal model is presented to better analyze situations of this type. Analysis of this model reveals t...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 72; no. 1; pp. 17 - 36 |
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