Worldview disagreement and subjective epistemic obligations

Epistemic Relativism and Reasonable Disagreement [version of June, 2007]

I begin with some familiar conceptions of epistemic relativism. One kind of epistemic relativism is descriptive pluralism. This is the simple, non-normative thesis that many different communities, cultures, social networks, etc. endorse different epistemic systems (E-systems), i.e., different sets of norms, standards, or principles for forming beliefs and other doxastic states. Communities try ...

Prescriptive and Descriptive Obligations in Dynamic Epistemic Deontic Logic

Normative sentences can be used to change or to describe the normative system, known as prescriptive and descriptive obligations respectively. In applications of deontic logic it is important to distinguish these two uses of normative sentences. In this paper we show how they can be distinguished and analysed in a dynamic epistemic deontic logic.

Dealing With Disagreement: Distinguishing Two Types of Epistemic Peers

Islamic worldview, fasting and health

Fasting effects on health and well-being. Although this effects were studied based on biological view, however there is a different view based on our Islamic teachings. Fasting is related to human virtues such as piety and cautious. These virtues are related to others characteristics in Islamic view which show the holistic view of Islam on health. In order to answer this question refer to Holy ...

Is there more to subjective cognitive impairment than meets the eye? Obligations and opportunities.

The focus of Tales et al. [1] is that there is an ethical imperative to recognize the burden of disability inherent in subjective cognitive impairment (SCI) and to characterize this entity using novel measures which may be more sensitive than standard clinical neuropsychological assessment. Currently applied classifications of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD), notably mild cognitive impairm...