Huang, Alice C. W.: Learning to Be Epistemic Altruists

_PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association_. forthcomingSuppose an epistemic agent has multiple strategies available to them. Among these, one strategy maximizes their expected accuracy, while another does not maximize their own expected accuracy, but instead maximizes the expected accuracy of the epistemic group they belong to. Call an agent that takes the latter strategy ``altruistic.” The role of epistemically altruistic agents has been highlighted in m