Lee, Carole J. (2018) The Reference Class Problem for Credit Valuation in Science. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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Abstract
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) | ||||||
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Keywords: | Decision theory, credit economy, reference class problem, science policy | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Science and Policy |
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Depositing User: | Dr. Carole J. Lee | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2018 03:09 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2018 03:09 | ||||||
Item ID: | 15406 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Science and Policy |
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Date: | 30 October 2018 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15406 |
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