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    Agent-based modeling is a more appropriate method for representing how scientists decide which research problems and strategies to pursue.

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    • 1.Kitcher's and Strevens's models require idealized agents with full or uniform knowledge.
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    • 2.Actual scientists have imperfect, non-overlapping, and partial knowledge.
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    • 3.Agent-based modeling can represent heterogeneous, partial, and imperfect knowledge among agents.
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    • 1.ABMs require prior theoretical commitments about which agent behaviors and decision rules are scientifically relevant, making them no less idealized than analytical models.
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    • 2.Weisberg and Muldoon's epistemic landscape ABMs have been shown to produce divergent results under minor parameter changes, undermining their claim to greater representational fidelity.
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    • 3.Representational heterogeneity in a model does not entail that the model accurately captures the causal mechanisms driving actual scientific decision-making.
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    • 1.Kitcher's formal framework in 'The Advancement of Science' is explicitly normative, not descriptive, so empirical inadequacy about agent cognition is not a defeating objection.
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    • 2.Conflating the normative question of how scientists ought to allocate effort with the descriptive question of how they do decide undermines the original justificatory purpose of these models.
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    Communication and the division of cognitive labor. Among the first issues to be investigated using formal techniques was the division of cognitive labor. While big science projects such as discussed by Hardwig pose a problem of integrating disparate elements of the solution to a question, the division of cognitive labor concerns the appropriate or optimal distribution of efforts towards solving a given problem. If everyone follows the same research strategy to solve a problem or answer a questio
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