This position paper advocates combining formal epistemology and the new paradigm psychology of reasoning in the studies of conditionals and reasoning with uncertainty. The new paradigm psychology of reasoning is characterized by the use of probability theory as a rationality framework instead of classical logic, used by more traditional approaches to the psychology of reasoning. This paper pres...

The argument from disagreement is among the most important that has been directed against moral realism.1 Yet, in recent years it has been widely rejected – so widely, in fact, that even those who are sympathetic with irrealism have often found it unconvincing. One reason for this has to do with the fact that newer, more sophisticated versions of moral realism have recently emerged. Some of the...

In 1971 Churchman drew our attention to the importance of epistemology for information systems by modeling five types of ‘inquiring’ systems based on the evolving forms of epistemology. However, the evolution of epistemology did not end there. The most recent advance is the deliberative model. In this paper we clarify and strengthen the concept of deliberative communication as a form of deliber...