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AN ECONOMIC MODEL OF SCIENTIFIC RULES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2006

JOSÉ LUIS FERREIRA
Affiliation:
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
JESÚS ZAMORA-BONILLA
Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Abstract

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.

Type
Essay
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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