Rosenstock, Sarita and O'Connor, Cailin and Bruner, Justin (2016) In Epistemic Networks, is Less Really More? [Preprint]

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Abstract

We show that previous results from epistemic network models (Zollman, 2007, 2010; Kummerfeld and Zollman, 2015) showing the benefits of decreased connectivity in epistemic networks are not robust across changes in parameter values. Our findings motivate discussion about whether and how such models can inform real-world epistemic communities. As we argue, only robust results from epistemic network models should be used to generate advice for the real-world, and, in particular, decreasing connectivity is a robustly poor recommendation.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Rosenstock, Sarita rosensts@uci.edu O'Connor, Cailin cailino@uci.edu Bruner, Justin justin.bruner@anu.edu.au
Keywords:	social epistemology, models, simulations, formal epistemology
Subjects:	General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Models and Idealization
Depositing User:	Sarita Rosenstock
Date Deposited:	10 Feb 2016 16:21
Last Modified:	10 Feb 2016 16:21
Item ID:	11900
Subjects:	General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Models and Idealization
Date:	9 January 2016
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11900

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