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|Question=Who can be a ''bearer'' of a ''mosaic''? Can a ''community'' be a bearer of a mosaic? Can an ''individual'' be a bearer of a mosaic? Can an ''instrument' be a bearer of a mosaic?
|Topic Type=Descriptive
|Description=Consider An agent is defined as an entity with a capacity to act. [[CiteRef::Schlosser (2015)]] The question here is who or what can be an epistemic agent, that is, who or what can take [[Epistemic Stances|stances]] towards [[Epistemic Elements|epistemic elements]] or be the bearer of a [[Scientific Mosaic|scientific mosaic]]? For example, consider a [[Epistemic Community|community ]] that [[Authority Delegation|delegates authority ]] over a certain topic to its sub-community. Then this sub-community delegates authority over a sub-topic of this topic to its sub-sub-community. Finally, this sub-sub-community delegates one very specific question to a single expert. Does this mean that an individual scientist can also be a bearer of a mosaic?Another question is whether an artificial system, such as a database or an instrument, can function as an epistemic agent, and if so, what properties it would need to possess in order to do so.
|Parent Topic=Ontology of Scientific Change
|Authors List=Kevin Zheng, Hakob Barseghyan,
|Formulated Year=2016
|Academic Events=Scientonomy Seminar 2016,
|Prehistory=For most of the history of western science and philosophy, human individuals were treated as the primary epistemic agents. Exceptions include discussions of when one should accept the testimony of others in the works of [[David Hume]] and [[Thomas Reid]]. [[CiteRef::Goldman (2015)]]
|Related Topics=Scientific Community, Applicability of the Laws of Scientific Change, Scientific Mosaic, Epistemic Stances Towards Theories,
|Page Status=Needs Editing
