A long-standing line of work in economic theory has studied
models by which a group of people in a social network, each holding
a numerical opinion, can arrive at a shared opinion through
repeated averaging with their neighbors in the network...
When objectivity became a goal for science in the early
nineteenth century, natural philosophers had to invert epistemic
virtues: idealization out, mechanical representation in.
Twentieth-century scientists questioned image-based
mechanical...
