Analysis of Division of Cognitive Labor Models with Parameter Inaccuracy: Case Studies

摘要

Division of cognitive labor model has been championed by Philip Kitcher and Michael Strevens. They proposed that scientific community is more effective if scientists distribute their cognitive labor among different projects. In this paper, we study the division of cognitive labor based on our proposed model with parameter inaccuracy. Due to the complexity involved in modeling the general case, we focus on several special cases with a small number of scientists and projects. The theoretical and experimental results show that the imprecise parameters greatly impact the outcome of labor division and the result is far from the original ideal case.