Ferreira, José LuisZamora-Bonilla, Jesús2014-05-302014-05-302006-07Economics and Philosophy (2006), 22(2), 191-212.1474-0028 (online)0266-2671 (print)https://hdl.handle.net/10016/5152Empirical 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.22application/pdfeng© Cambridge of University Pressresearch articleEconomía10.1017/S0266267106000861open access1912212Economics and Philosophy22