Dear all,
we are delighted to invite you to the next instalment of the APSE talks
series, as well as to the accompanying reading circle prior to the talk.
The talk will be given by Remco Heesen (LSE).
When: Thursday, 10.04.2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Where: HS 3A, NIG (Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien)
The Division of Cognitive Labour under Poisson Productivity
When a community of academics faces a research problem and multiple
methodological approaches to solving it, how much effort should they
devote to each approach to maximise their chances of solving the problem
and minimise the time to a solution? This problem is known as the
division of cognitive labour (DCL). More specifically, Philip Kitcher,
Michael Strevens, and Kevin Zollman have asked whether and to what
extent academics' expectations of credit for solving the problem can act
as an invisible hand to produce an efficient DCL without a need for
top-down planning. Here I revisit this question using a modelling
framework (key ingredient: academic productivity follows a Poisson
distribution) that has more empirical support than Kitcher's, Strevens',
and Zollman's, and is also more flexible in that it can be used to
address broader questions about credit incentives. The somewhat
surprising finding is that in this framework the DCL problem becomes
essentially trivial. I'd like to discuss implications for how we think
about the model and/or the DCL problem.
Reading Circle:
When: right before the talk - Thursday, 10.04.2025, 13:00 - 15:00
Where: same place - HS 3A, NIG (Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien)
To get the reading material for the Reading Cycle, please contact
vinzenz.fischer(a)univie.ac.at
Please share this invitation with anyone who might be interested!
Best wishes,
Ella Berger
(on behalf of the APSE unit)
We are happy to invite you to our 5th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2025S:
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Best wishes,
Katrin Hackl
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Mag. Katrin Hackl
Research Support & Communication
Department of Science and Technology Studies
University of Vienna
Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG)
1010 Vienna / Austria
Tel.: 0043-1-4277-496007
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