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