TY - JOUR
T1 - The epistemic costs and benefits of collaboration
AU - Fallis, Don
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - In " How to Collaborate," Paul Thagard tries to explain why there is so much collaboration in science, and so little collaboration in philosophy, by giving an epistemic cost-benefit analysis. In this paper, I argue that an adequate explanation requires a more fully developed epistemic value theory than Thagard utilizes. In addition, I offer an alternative to Thagard's explanation of the lack of collaboration in philosophy. He appeals to its lack of a tradition of collaboration and to the a priori nature of much philosophical research. I claim that philosophers rarely collaborate simply because they can usually get the benefits without paying the costs of actually collaborating.
AB - In " How to Collaborate," Paul Thagard tries to explain why there is so much collaboration in science, and so little collaboration in philosophy, by giving an epistemic cost-benefit analysis. In this paper, I argue that an adequate explanation requires a more fully developed epistemic value theory than Thagard utilizes. In addition, I offer an alternative to Thagard's explanation of the lack of collaboration in philosophy. He appeals to its lack of a tradition of collaboration and to the a priori nature of much philosophical research. I claim that philosophers rarely collaborate simply because they can usually get the benefits without paying the costs of actually collaborating.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2006.tb00039.x
DO - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2006.tb00039.x
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:36248963937
SN - 0038-4283
VL - 44
SP - 197
EP - 208
JO - Southern Journal of Philosophy
JF - Southern Journal of Philosophy
IS - SUPPL
ER -