Topological variability of collectives and its import for social epistemology.
Social epistemology studies knowledge and justified belief acquisition through organized group cooperation. To do this, the way such group cooperation is structured has to be modeled. The obvious way of modeling a group structure is with a directed graph; unfortunately, most types of social cooperat...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 191; no. 11; pp. 2433 - 2444 |
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