Teaching Epistemology – Workshop as a Method for making Epistemology Relevant to Students

Epistemology as Methodology

What is distinctive about my views in epistemology? One thing is that my concern with epistemology is a concern with methodology. Furthermore, I reject psychologism about logic and reject the idea that deductive rules like modus ponens are in any way rules of inference. I accept a kind of methodological conservatism and reject methodological theories that appeal to special foundations, analytic...

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...

The Relevance of Experimental Epistemology to Traditional Epistemology

Experimental epistemology is the use of the experimental methods of the cognitive sciences to shed light on debates within epistemology, the philosophical study of knowledge and rationally justified belief. A variety of misconceptions about this experimental approach conspire to make it far more controversial than it should be. For example, no experimental philosopher has ever claimed that expe...

The epistemology of clinical decision-making

The goal of this thesis is to understand clinical decision-making regarding diagnosis and treatment and the role of different types of information, including measurements using technological instruments. From studying the history of medicine I conclude that the development of medical practice is intertwined with the development of science and scientific methods, and with the conceptions of dise...

Why Social Epistemology Is Real Epistemology