Rationale and guidelines for empirical adversarial collaboration: A<i>Thinking & Reasoning</i>initiative
Thinking & ReasoningPublished 5 November 2014
Tim Rakow, Valerie Thompson, Linden J. Ball, Henry Markovits
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Science is a collective endeavour, which arguably makes greatest progress when its structures and practices allow scientists to build on the work of others through shared programmes of research wit...
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