Is Epistemology Tainted?

Why Social Epistemology Is Real Epistemology

What (good) Is Historical Epistemology? Editors' Introduction

We provide an overview of three ways in which the expression ‘Historical epistemology’ (HE) is often understood: (1) HE as a study of the history of higher-order epistemic concepts such as objectivity, observation, experimentation, or probability; (2) HE as a study of the historical trajectories of the objects of research, such as the electron, DNA, or phlogiston; (3) HE as the long-term study ...

Genetic Epistemology and Naturalized Epistemology

When I started studying philosophy at the lycée , the very first book that I read happened to be Piaget’s Sagesse et illusions de la philosophie. I hated it. It explained that philosophy can, to some extent, keep its traditional role of searching for wisdom in the practical domain, but that it is no better than poetry when it tries to say things about the nature of the world, and even when it s...

Levamisole tainted cocaine induced vasculitis

Levamisole has been implicated in the vasculitis and aganulocytosis. It has been pulled from the United States market for human use. Due to its euphoric and bulking properties, it has been . used as a bulking agent in cocaine. We hereby present a case of a 56-year-old Hispanic male, who developed vasculitis due to cocaine use adulterated with levamisole.

The tainted milk of human kindness.

Department of Medical Microbiology and Virology, National Health Laboratory Service (D Goedhals MMed [Virol], I Rossouw MMed [Virol], M Mamabolo BSc), and Department of Pediatrics and Child Health (U Hallbauer FC Paed SA), University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa and; Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Mtubatuba, South Africa and; Resea...