Reasons for Belief, by Andrew Reisner and Asbjorn Steglich-Petersen (eds).

Summaries Petersen/Amstutz (eds): Natural Compounds as Drugs II Summary

The ongoing exponential growth of DNA sequence data will lead to the discovery of many natural-product biosynthesis pathways by genome mining for which no actual product has been characterised. In many cases, these clusters remain silent under laboratory conditions. New technologies based on genetic engineering are available to induce silent genes. Heterologous expression of a silent gene clust...

Summaries Petersen/Amstutz (eds): Natural Compounds as Drugs II

The ongoing exponential growth of DNA sequence data will lead to the discovery of many natural-product biosynthesis pathways by genome mining for which no actual product has been characterised. In many cases, these clusters remain silent under laboratory conditions. New technologies based on genetic engineering are available to induce silent genes. Heterologous expression of a silent gene clust...

On the Epistemology of the Precautionary Principle: Reply to Steglich-Petersen

In recent paper in this journal (), we proposed two novel puzzles associated with the precautionary principle. Both are puzzles that materialise, we argue, once we investigate the principle through an epistemological lens, and each constitutes a philosophical hurdle for any proponent of a plausible version of the precautionary principle. Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen () claims, also in this...

Reasons for (prior) belief in Bayesian epistemology

Bayesian epistemology tells us with great precision how we should move from prior to posterior beliefs in light of new evidence or information, but says little about where our prior beliefs come from. It o¤ers few resources to describe some prior beliefs as rational or well-justi…ed, and others as irrational or unreasonable. A di¤erent strand of epistemology takes the central epistemological qu...

Truth Promoting Non-Evidential Reasons for Belief