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- S Wenmackers, Danny Vanpoucke (UGent) and I Douven
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- Both in philosophy and in psychology, human rationality has traditionally been studied from an "individualistic" perspective. Recently, social epistemologists have drawn attention to the fact that epistemic interactions among agents also give rise to important questions concerning rationality. In previous work, we have used a formal model to assess the risk that a particular type of social-epistemic interactions lead agents with initially consistent belief states into inconsistent belief states. Here, we continue this work by investigating the dynamics to which these interactions may give rise in the population as a whole.
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- social epistemology, MODEL, probability, rationality, theory, inconsistency, beliefs, opinion dynamics, computer simulations
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-5713007
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- Wenmackers, S., et al. “Rationality: A Social-Epistemology Perspective.” FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 5, 2014, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00581.
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- Wenmackers, S., Vanpoucke, D., & Douven, I. (2014). Rationality: a social-epistemology perspective. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00581
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- Wenmackers, S, Danny Vanpoucke, and I Douven. 2014. “Rationality: A Social-Epistemology Perspective.” FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00581.
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- Wenmackers, S, Danny Vanpoucke, and I Douven. 2014. “Rationality: A Social-Epistemology Perspective.” FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY 5. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00581.
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- 1.Wenmackers S, Vanpoucke D, Douven I. Rationality: a social-epistemology perspective. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. 2014;5.
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- [1]S. Wenmackers, D. Vanpoucke, and I. Douven, “Rationality: a social-epistemology perspective,” FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 5, 2014.
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