ABSTRACT
The appropriateness of principles governing credit allocation for cooperative discoveries may seem straightforward. The proper principle of division of stakes in fair gambling is a matter of exact alignment with the actual or probable takings of the parties at issue. Moral credit pivots on process and intention; epistemic credit on product and accomplishments. And in consequence there arises a difference in distribution principle owing to the greater functional adequacy in point of effectiveness and efficiency in goal realization that these different principles are able to engender. Ultimately the rules of allocation are pragmatically rooted in the functional nature of the particular enterprise, attuned to and emergent from the characteristic teleology at issue. Some significant lessons emerge from such comparisons: Epistemology and morality are both normative enterprises, but they differ sharply in point of teleology. Their functional or purposive dimension is markedly different, so that a very different rationale is operative with respect to credit allocation in these two cases.
