A debate within radiation protection science has been building over many years regarding whether low-dose, ionizing radiation (LDIR, in the range of 0 200 mGy) is known to be a carcinogen (1). That debate now approaches a fever pitch, and the time is ripe to assess what is known and how it is known to determine where truth must lie. A philosophy developed over centuries that applies to such an ...

The Finding of a Prologue: Art, Science and Truth in García Bacca
 Resumen: El presente artículo pretende exponer cómo ese cambio de “categorías” impuesto por el hecho una ciencia físico-matemática-instrumental será que, en definitiva, posibilite surgimiento real novedades ?la creación? y obligue un reajuste la epistemología tradicional. Dándose, consecuentemente, pensamiento Juan David Ba...

The paper deals with Aristotelian logic as the special case of more general epistemology and sociology of both science and common sense. The Aristotelian principles of identity, of noncontradiction, and of excluded middle are to be supplemented by the secondorder cybernetic, or "cybernethic" principles of paradox, of ambivalence, and of control. In this paper we collect some ideas on how to eva...

Cognitive integration is a defining yet overlooked feature of our intellect that may nevertheless have substantial effects on the process of knowledge-acquisition. To bring those effects to the fore, I explore the topic of cognitive integration both from the perspective of virtue reliabilism within externalist epistemology and the perspective of extended cognition within externalist philosophy ...

The main focus of this essay is to closely engage with the role of scientist-subjectivity in the making of objectivity in Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's book Objectivity, and Daston's later and earlier works On Scientific Observation and The Moral Economy of Science. I have posited four challenges to the neo-Kantian and Foucauldian constructions of the co-implication of psychology and epis...

Formal epistemology could have a better standing within philosophical epistemology than it actually has. One half is Bayesianism, i.e., probability theory, which is silent, though, on the most basic notion of philosophical epistemology, the notion of belief, replacing it by many degrees of belief. The other half is a divided lot of theories, rather at home in computer science and hardly perspic...

This article demonstrates how Lakatos built his systems of justificationism and falsificationism upon the foundation of Curry’s formalist mathematics. Its fundamental result establishes the logical status of complexity science as distinct from and superseding those existing systems of proof and refutation commonly acknowledged in social science methodology in particular and scientific epistemol...