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An economic model of scientific rules

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/5152
ISSN: 1474-0028 (online)
ISSN: 0266-2671 (print)
DOI: 10.1017/S0266267106000861
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2006-07
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Cambridge of University Press
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Empirical reports on scientific competition show that scientists can be depicted as self-interested, strategically behaving agents. Nevertheless, we argue that recognition-seeking scientists will have an interest in establishing methodological norms which tend to select theories of a high epistemic value, and that these norms will be still more stringent if the epistemic value of theories appears in the utility function of scientists, either directly or instrumentally.
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Economics and Philosophy (2006), 22(2), 191-212.
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