Can diversity make for better science? Although diversity has ethical and political value,
arguments for its epistemic value require a bridge between normative and mechanistic …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

There has been a surge of recent interest in sociocultural diversity in machine learning
research. Currently, however, there is a gap between discussions of measures and benefits …

This article aims to describe the last 10 years of the collaborative scientific endeavors on
polarization in particular and collective problem-solving in general by our multidisciplinary …

Diversity is often announced as a solution to ethical problems in artificial intelligence (AI),
but what exactly is meant by diversity and how it can solve those problems is seldom spelled …

Many democratic societies currently struggle with issues around knowledge: fake news,
distrust of experts, a fear of technocratic tendencies. In Citizen Knowledge, Lisa Herzog …

Scientific Testimony concerns the roles of scientific testimony in science and society. The
book develops a positive alternative to a tradition famously expressed by the slogan of the …

Previous simulation models have found positive effects of cognitive diversity on group
performance, but have not explored effects of diversity in demographics (eg, gender …

In this introduction to the Topical Collection on Social and Cognitive Diversity in Science, we
map the questions that have guided social epistemological approaches to diversity in …

A number of formal models, including a highly influential model from Hong and Page,
purport to show that functionally diverse groups often beat groups of individually high …