Computational Philosophy
Modelling the Structure of a Communication Network How to represent rival scientific theories and their ideal or objective epistemic success (Sytem) How to represent evidence gathering, that is, inforamtion in view of which scientists assess theories (Experiment strategy) How to represent exchange of information (Social Learning) How scientists in the model reason and evaluate theories (Scientists) Zollman’s model Scientists : Bayesian reasoners assigned random prior probabilities for two rival hypotheses, each of which has a designated objective probability of success (OPS) Agents always choose to pursue a theory which they believe to be better....