A comparison of two models of scientific progress

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 46:94-99 (2014)
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Does science progress toward some goal or merely away from primitive beginnings? Two agent-based models are built to explain how possibly both kinds of progressive scientific change can result from the interactions of individuals exploring an epistemic landscape. These models are shown to result in qualitatively different predictions about what the resulting system of science should be like

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10.1016/j.shpsa.2014.03.002

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