2016/08/11 by Stewart Cohen · 6 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · Medicine · #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics #Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies #Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
paper · doi:10.1080/0020174x.2016.1208903
I argue that epistemologists’ use of the term ‘epistemic’ has led to serious confusion in the discussion of epistemological issues. The source of the problem is that ‘epistemic’ functions largely as an undefined technical term. I show how this confusion has infected discussions of the nature of epistemic justification, epistemic norms for evidence gathering, and knowledge norms for assertion and belief.