The Four Horsemen of the ‘Omicsalypse’: ontology, replicability, probability and epistemology
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DOI: 10.1007/s00439-019-02007-7
Abstract: Much of modern genomics and the other ‘omics’ that tag along, assert that the causal bases of biomedical outcomes are genomically enumerable lists whose effects are predictable with ‘precision’, extensible from samples to all, and… read more here.
Keywords: ontology replicability; horsemen omicsalypse; ontology; omicsalypse ontology ... See more keywords
The Epistemology of a Positive SARS-CoV-2 Test
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DOI: 10.1007/s10441-020-09393-w
Abstract: We investigate the epistemological consequences of a positive polymerase chain reaction SARS-CoV test for two relevant hypotheses: (i) V is the hypothesis that an individual has been infected with SARS-CoV-2; (ii) C is the hypothesis… read more here.
Keywords: evidence; epistemology; hypothesis; sars cov ... See more keywords
Rethinking Right: Moral Epistemology in Management Research
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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-3009-2
Abstract: Most management researchers pause at the threshold of objective right and wrong. Their hesitation is understandable. Values imply a “subjective,” personal dimension, one that can invite religious and moral interference in research. The dominant epistemological… read more here.
Keywords: management research; management; epistemology; rethinking right ... See more keywords
The Sense of Agency and the Epistemology of Thinking
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DOI: 10.1007/s10670-020-00317-1
Abstract: This paper motivates a constraint on how to explain the “sense of agency” for conscious thinking. It argues that a prominent model fails to satisfy the constraint before sketching an alternative that does. On the… read more here.
Keywords: epistemology; sense agency; epistemology thinking; agency epistemology ... See more keywords
Towards an Epistemology of Interdependence Among the Orthogonal Roles in Human–Machine Teams
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DOI: 10.1007/s10699-019-09632-5
Abstract: Rational social theorists (e.g., game and decision theorists) have failed to confirm that observations of social reality equal social reality. Yet they argue that teams, organizations and social systems should minimize interdependence and competition, echoed… read more here.
Keywords: interdependence; machine teams; epistemology; human machine ... See more keywords
Explicationist Epistemology and the Explanatory Role of Knowledge
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DOI: 10.1007/s10838-020-09520-8
Abstract: It has been argued that much of contemporary epistemology can be unified under Carnap’s methodology of explication, which originated in the neighboring field of philosophy of science. However, it is unclear to what extent epistemological… read more here.
Keywords: explanatory role; philosophy; epistemology; role knowledge ... See more keywords
Of a false dilemma and the knowledge of values
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DOI: 10.1007/s11007-020-09517-6
Abstract: The work of Gabriel Marcel is retrieved and set in relation to the question of moral epistemology. I begin by surveying Marcel’s long-running critique of a false dilemma with implications for the nature of our… read more here.
Keywords: knowledge; knowledge values; philosophy; epistemology ... See more keywords
Loving and knowing: reflections for an engaged epistemology
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DOI: 10.1007/s11097-019-09634-5
Abstract: In search of our highest capacities, cognitive scientists aim to explain things like mathematics, language, and planning (and while explaining them, they often imagine computers at work). But are these really our most sophisticated forms… read more here.
Keywords: epistemology; human knowing; loving knowing; reflections engaged ... See more keywords
Framing how we think about disagreement
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-017-0971-9
Abstract: Disagreement is a hot topic right now in epistemology, where there is spirited debate between epistemologists who argue that we should be moved by the fact that we disagree and those who argue that we… read more here.
Keywords: peer disagreement; framing think; epistemology; disagreement ... See more keywords
The myth of the myth of supervenience
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-018-1106-7
Abstract: Supervenience is necessary co-variation between two sets of entities (properties, facts, objects, etc.). In the good old days, supervenience was considered a useful philosophical tool with a wide range of applications in the philosophy of… read more here.
Keywords: myth myth; supervenience; epistemology; sin ... See more keywords
Understanding as compression
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-018-1152-1
Abstract: What is understanding? My goal in this paper is to lay out a new approach to this question and clarify how that approach deals with certain issues. The claim is that understanding is a matter… read more here.
Keywords: epistemology; philosophy; understanding compression;