Weisberg and Muldoon argue that epistemic communities benefit from cognitive diversity, specifically finding that a combination of 'followers' (who work on problems similar to others) and 'mavericks' (who prefer to explore new terrain) outperforms groups consisting of only one type.

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  Social Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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• Social Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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• epistemic communities concept