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Epistemic and Non-epistemic Values in Earthquake Engineering
The importance of epistemic values in science is universally recognized, whereas the role of non-epistemic values is sometimes considered disputable....
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The Value-Free Ideal of Science: A Useful Fiction? A Review of Non-epistemic Reasons for the Research Integrity Community
Even if the “value-free ideal of science” (VFI) were an unattainable goal, one could ask: can it be a useful fiction, one that is beneficial for the...
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Outward-facing epistemic vice
The epistemic virtues and vices are typically defined in terms of effects or motivations related to the epistemic states of their possessors....
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Earning epistemic trustworthiness: an impact assessment model
Epistemic trustworthiness depends not only on one’s epistemic but also on moral qualities. Such qualities need to be upheld by scientific communities...
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Agent-centered epistemic rationality
It is a plausible and compelling theoretical assumption that epistemic rationality is just a matter of having doxastic attitudes that are the...
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Migrations of Trust: Reasonable Trust and Epistemic Transgressions
Despite an immense amount of literature on the topic of trust, there is still no account that offers a plausible epistemological framework for the...
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Epistemic redress
Is it possible to redress a wrong specifically in one’s capacity as a knower? Epistemic justice has largely been conceived of as either an ideal goal...
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Says Who? Epistemic Injustice
One of the main theses of the book addresses how perceptions of resistance violence are often distorted by the dominant groups through what is known...
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Epistemic diversity and industrial selection bias
Philosophers of science have argued that epistemic diversity is an asset for the production of scientific knowledge, guarding against the effects of...
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How the EU AI Act Seeks to Establish an Epistemic Environment of Trust
With focus on the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the digital health context, we consider the following questions: How...
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Loving truly: An epistemic approach to the doxastic norms of love
If you love someone, is it good to believe better of her than epistemic norms allow? The partiality view says that it is: love, on this view, issues...
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Justifying Humanitarian Interference for Epistemic Threats
One feature of authoritarian populist regimes is the degree to which they both command and pollute epistemic environments. Populist leaders...
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The Promise in Disasters: Reducing Epistemic Deficits of Food Systems for Sustainability
As Paul Thompson has argued, agriculture, and food systems more generally, can be usefully analyzed with tools from the philosophy of technology. Don...
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“Absent Contrary Indication”: On a Pernicious Form of Epistemic Luck, and its Epistemic Agency Antidote
It is widely accepted that knowledge is incompatible with the presence of non-neutralized defeaters. A common way of addressing this issue is to...
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Epistemic Decolonisation in African Higher Education: Beyond Current Curricular and Pedagogical Reformation
In recent years, the struggle to decolonize knowledge in academia has largely focused on addressing cognitive concerns such as curricular development...
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Accounting for Animal Welfare: Addressing Epistemic Vices During Live Sheep Export Voyages
In this research, we develop a reporting framework based on an ethical account of the Australian live sheep export (LSE) industry’s current...
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Epistemic Aims of School Education
The purpose of this chapter is to spell out the understanding of the epistemic dimension of school education to which I am adhering and that will...
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Some Technical Issues and Problems in the Epistemic Model of Tawhidi Unified Reality
This chapter continues in a mix of abstract and applied philosophical issues of the socio-scientific field of inquiry. The focus is on the persistent...
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From Responsibility to Reason-Giving Explainable Artificial Intelligence
We argue that explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), specifically reason-giving XAI, often constitutes the most suitable way of ensuring that...
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Who ought to look towards the horizon? A qualitative study on the collective social responsibility of scientific research
There is a growing concern for the proper role of science within democratic societies, which has led to the development of new science policies for...