An Agent-Based Model of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Authored by Langhe Rogier de
Date Published: 2018
DOI: 10.12759/hsr.43.2018.1.28-47
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Abstract
``Thomas Kuhn's `Die Struktur wissenschaftlicher Revolutionen'. Eine
agentenbasierte Simulation{''} Kuhn's Structure of Scientific
Revolutions is interpreted as the specification of an agent-based model.
Kuhn described scientists as autonomous agents and an emergent pattern
of evolving paradigms. The missing link in his account is then a
mechanism by which this pattern self organizes from the interactions of
autonomous scientists without centralized control. This paper exploits
advances in agent-based modeling and stigmergy to fill the missing link
in Kuhn's account. A complete agent-based model of Kuhn's Structure of
Scientific Revolutions could lead to a better understanding of the
contribution of the evolution of the social structure of science to its
success.
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Agent-based modeling
Increasing Returns
systems
rationality
Stigmergy
Paradigms
Revolutions
Thomas kuhn