Fazelpour, Sina and Rubin, Hannah (2024) Diversity and homophily in group inquiry. [Preprint]
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How do social factors affect group learning in diverse populations? Evidence from cognitive science gives us some insight into this question, but is generally limited to showing how social factors play out in small groups over short time periods. To study larger groups and longer time periods, we argue that we can combine evidence about social factors from cognitive science with agent-based models of group learning. In this vein, we demonstrate the usefulness of idealized models of inquiry, in which the assumption of Bayesian agents is used to isolate and explore the impact of social factors. We show that whether a certain social factor is beneficial to the community’s epistemic aims depends on its particular manifestation by focusing on the impacts of homophily – the tendency of individuals to associate with similar others – on group inquiry.
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| Additional Information: | prepared for a collected volume on Bayesianism in philosophy | |||||||||
| Keywords: | social epistemology; diversity; Bayesianism; philosophy of science; agent-based models | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Computer Simulation General Issues > Game Theory General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Hannah Rubin | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 04 Dec 2024 13:20 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 04 Dec 2024 13:20 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 24341 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Computer Simulation General Issues > Game Theory General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science |
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| Date: | 2024 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24341 |
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