At the beginning of this century, Hegselmann and Krause proposed a dynamical model for
opinion formation that is referred to as the Bounded Confidence Opinion Dynamics (BCOD) …

The social identity theory proposed by Tajfel et al. provides insight into how group
membership and self-categorization cause intergroup prejudice and discrimination, finally …

This paper seeks to make a theoretical and empirical case for the importance of
differentiated identities for group function. Research on groups has found that groups …

This article compares inference to the best explanation with Bayes's rule in a social setting,
specifically, in the context of a variant of the Hegselmann–Krause model in which agents not …

We study groups of interacting agents who are trying to discover probabilistic truths on the
basis of sequentially provided evidence and information about the belief states of other …

Bayesians have traditionally taken a dim view of the Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE),
arguing that, if IBE is at variance with Bayes' rule, then it runs afoul of the dynamic Dutch …

Social epistemology is the interdisciplinary inquiry into the myriad ways humans socially
acquire, create, construct, transmit, store, represent, revise, and review knowledge …

The bounded confidence model has been widely used to formally study groups of agents
who are sharing opinions with those in their epistemic neighborhood. We revisit the model …

Hegselmann and Krause have developed a simple yet powerful computational model for
studying the opinion dynamics in societies of epistemically interacting truth-seeking agents …

The paper introduces, compares and contrasts formal models of source reliability proposed
in the epistemology literature, in particular the prominent models of Bovens and Hartmann …