Publication: An economic model of scientific rules
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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.