The Epistemic Costs and Benefits of Collaboration
(2006) The Epistemic Costs and Benefits of Collaboration. Southern Journal of Philosophy 44(S).
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Abstract
In "How to Collaborate," Paul Thagard tries to explain why there is so much collaboration in science, and so little collaboration in philosophy, by giving an epistemic cost-benefit analysis. In this paper, I argue that an adequate explanation requires a more fully developed epistemic value theory than Thagard utilizes. In addition, I offer an alternative to Thagard's explanation of the lack of collaboration in philosophy. He appeals to its lack of a tradition of collaboration and to the a priori nature of much philosophical research. I claim that philosophers rarely collaborate simply because they can usually get the benefits without paying the costs of actually collaborating.
| EPrint Type: | Journal Article (On-line/Unpaginated) |
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| Keywords: | Collaboration, Epistemic Value Theory, Social Epistemology, Procedural Knowledge, Scientific Research, Philosophical Research, Mathematical Research. |
| Subjects: | Philosophy Epistemology Social Epistemology |
| ID Code: | 1802 |
| Deposited On: | 03 March 2007 |
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