Lee, Carole J. (2018) The Reference Class Problem for Credit Valuation in Science. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Scholars belong to multiple communities of credit simultaneously. When these communities disagree about how much credit to assign to a scholarly achievement, this raises a puzzle for decision theory models of credit-seeking in science. The reference class problem for credit valuation in science is the problem of determining to which of an agent’s communities – which reference class – credit determinations should be indexed for any given act under any given state of nature. I will identify strategies and desiderata for resolving ambiguity in credit valuation due to this problem and explain how pursuing its solution could, ironically, lead to its dissolution.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Lee, Carole J. c3@uw.edu 0000-0002-5323-9205
Keywords:	Decision theory, credit economy, reference class problem, science policy
Subjects:	General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Science and Policy
Depositing User:	Dr. Carole J. Lee
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2018 23:43
Last Modified:	30 Oct 2018 23:43
Item ID:	15228
Subjects:	General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Science and Policy
Date:	30 October 2018
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15228

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