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    Challenges→Kitcher's and Strevens's accounts of the division of cognitive labor are inadequate because they presuppose unrealistically uniform and ideal agents.

    In reality, scientists have at best imperfect knowledge of the entire research situation.

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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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