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How tracking technology is transforming animal ecology: epistemic values, interdisciplinarity, and technology-driven scientific change
Tracking technology has been heralded as transformative for animal ecology. In this paper I examine what changes are taking place, showing how...
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Worldviews, values and perspectives towards the future of the livestock sector
The livestock sector is under increasing pressure to respond to numerous sustainability and health challenges related to the production and...
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Does NEDS Really Illuminate the Connection Between Perceptual Experience and Perceptual Belief?
Crispin Wright argues that the difference in how internalist and externalist models of perceptual justification handle the new evil demon scenario...
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The place of non-epistemic matters in epistemology: norms and regulation in various communities
This paper brings together two lines of thought. The first is the broadly contextualist idea that what is takes to satisfy central epistemic concepts...
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The epistemic harms of direct-to-consumer genetic tests
In this paper, I provide an epistemic evaluation of the harms that result from the widespread marketing of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests....
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Pritchard on Veritism and Trivial Truths
Proponents of Veritism believe that truth is the sole non-instrumental epistemic good. This view is often taken to entail that all truths should be...
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Values, decision-making and empirical bioethics: a conceptual model for empirically identifying and analyzing value judgements
It can be assumed that value judgements, which are needed to judge what is ‘good’ or ‘better’ and what is ‘bad’ or ‘worse’, are involved in every...
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Philosophical import of non-epistemic values in clinical trials and data interpretation
In this essay, I argue that at least in two phases of pharmaceutical research, especially while assessing the adequacy of the accumulated data and...
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The Orthologic of Epistemic Modals
Epistemic modals have peculiar logical features that are challenging to account for in a broadly classical framework. For instance, while a sentence...
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What is gullibility?
Reductionism about testimony has become less popular as philosophers have uncovered our epistemic dependence on others. Meanwhile, both...
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A group identification account of collective epistemic vices
This paper offers an account of collective epistemic vices, which we call the “group identification account”. The group identification account...
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Supporting patient decision-making in non-invasive prenatal testing: a comparative study of professional values and practices in England and France
BackgroundNon-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), which can screen for aneuploidies such as trisomy 21, is being implemented in several public...
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Mathematical Explanation: Epistemic Aims and Diverging Assessments
Mathematicians suggest that some proofs are valued for their explanatory value. This has led to a philosophical debate about the distinction between...
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Veritism and ways of deriving epistemic value
Veritists hold that only truth has fundamental epistemic value. They are committed to explaining all other instances of epistemic goodness as somehow...
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What Values Mean in the Process of Recognition
It was already clear from the approach of Ikäheimo that recognition is not only determined by logic, norms and on different levels, but also by the...
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Reasonable standards and exculpating moral ignorance
It is widely agreed that ignorance of fact exculpates, but does moral ignorance exculpate? If so, does it exculpate in the same way as non-moral...
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Persons and Values
In this discussion, I want to explore the connections – if any – between theories of persons (that is, theories of the nature, individuation, and...
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Reducing thermodynamics to Boltzmannian statistical mechanics: the case of macro values
Thermodynamic macro variables, such as the temperature or volume macro variable, can take on a continuum of allowable values, called thermodynamic...
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Values for a Post-Pandemic Future
The costs of the COVID-19 pandemic are yet to be calculated, but they include the loss of millions of lives and the destruction of countless...
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This Time from Africa: Develo** a Relational Approach to Values-Driven Leadership
The importance of relationality in ethical leadership has been the focus of recent attention in business ethics scholarship. However, this relational...