id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_s7qbsxcdh5esbpsjnl35vcxg6y Conor Mayo-Wilson The Independence Thesis: When Individual and Social Epistemology Diverge* 2011 26 .pdf application/pdf 10976 824 60 methodological prescriptions for scientific communities and those for individual scientists are logically independent,2 and in recent years, this from the assumption that Bayesianism is rational for an isolated individual.3 Similar remarks can be made for formal learning theory, belief revision, ranking theory, and a host of other inductive methods recommended by philosophers of science and epistemologists. scientific communities and institutions, including an analysis of how learning methods are shared and research results are communicated. particular theory: conducting experiments, performing mathematical derivations, and so forth.10 Note that a scientist's action in this model is not she can use this information in her learning method or strategy to determine (probabilistically) which cognitive theory to pursue next. the world, the researcher chooses optimal actions with probability approaching one as inquiry progresses, regardless of the network in which At stage n, an individual employing m plays the action with the highest estimated value method m plays actions with highest estimated value with probability ./cache/work_s7qbsxcdh5esbpsjnl35vcxg6y.pdf ./txt/work_s7qbsxcdh5esbpsjnl35vcxg6y.txt