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  • Philosophy of Science
  • Cognitive Science
  • Social Epistemology

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  • Social cognition research often overlooks nuanced distinctions between different forms of social knowledge.
  • Understanding the nature of knowledge in scientific collaboration is crucial for epistemological and practical reasons.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a three-tiered framework for social cognition and its resultant knowledge.
  • To apply this framework to the domain of scientific collaboration.
  • To challenge the necessity of distributed cognition by presenting alternative models.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of social cognition and knowledge.
  • Development of a tiered model: socially-facilitated, socially extended, and distributed cognition.
  • Application of the model to case studies in scientific collaboration.

Main Results:

  • Socially-facilitated knowledge: social factors influence cognition but do not extend it.
  • Socially extended knowledge: information processing of others is part of the cognitive process, yet knowledge remains individual.
  • Distributed knowledge: cognitive success is attributable to the group agent, representing irreducibly group knowledge.

Conclusions:

  • The three-tiered model clarifies distinct levels of social cognition and knowledge in science.
  • The existence of weaker forms of social knowledge poses a challenge to the exclusive defense of distributed cognition.
  • Further justification is needed for prioritizing distributed cognition over socially-facilitated or socially extended knowledge in scientific contexts.