Care, Concern, and Advocacy: Is There a Place for Epistemic Responsibility?

Is There Cause for Concern?

The race for a cure to cancer continues, fueled by unprecedented discoveries of fundamental biology underlying carcinogenesis and tumorigenesis. The expansion of the target list and tools to approach them is moving the oncology community extraordinarily rapidly to clinical trials, bringing new hope for cancer patients. This effort is also propelling biological discoveries in cardiovascular rese...

If There Is Really a Notable Concern about Allergenicity of Genetically Modified Foods?

In recent decades, biotechnologists have striven to improve the quantity and quality of food supply. Producing genetically modified (GM) foods is one of the main goals and many countries all over the world have approved the distribution and consumption of the labeled GM foods in their own regions. However, there are still few groups having concerns about allergenicity of GM foods. This review h...

Is there still a place for thrombectomy?

Malignancy is known to be a prothrombotic condition , and some antitumor drugs may amplify the hyper-coagulable tendency. We present a female patient with cancer, who developed acute coronary syndrome (ACS) due to occlusive intracoronary thrombus without underlying atherosclerosis. A 59-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer diagnosed 2 years ago, paraneoplastic syndrome and steroid diabe...

Is there a place for animal experiments?

Epistemic Responsibility without Epistemic Agency

This article discusses the arguments against associating epistemic responsibility with the ordinary notion of agency. I examine the various “Kantian” views which lead to a distinctive conception of epistemic agency and epistemic responsibility, in particular the one proposed by Pamela Hieronymi (2007). I try to explain why we can be held responsible for our beliefs in the sense of obeying norms...