THEORY FROM CHAOS

Authored by Michael Dickson

Date Published: 2013-12

DOI: 10.1017/epi.2013.37

Sponsors: No sponsors listed

Platforms: NetLogo

Model Documentation: Other Narrative

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Abstract

I explore an agent-based model of the development and dissemination of scientific theory that makes very little use of any pre-defined social structure (such as partnerships or collaborations). In these models, under a broad range of values of the parameters, widespread (but not universal) agreement about scientific theory emerges. Moreover, the residual disagreement turns out to be important to developing new theories in the face of new evidence.

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