My purpose in this paper is to examine whether Pyrrhonian scepticism, as this stance is described in Sextus Empiricus?s extant works, has practical or epistemic value. More precisely, I would like to consider whether the ...

The ‘value-free ideal’ has been called into question for several reasons. It does not include “epistemic values”—viewed as characteristic of ‘good science’—and rejects the so-called ‘contextual’, ‘non-cognitive’ or ...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to update and review the concept of warrant in Library and Information Science (LIS) and to introduce the concept of epistemic warrant from philosophy. Epistemic warrant can be used ...

What could it mean to say that one has historical sensibility? This paper investigates this question and how such sensibility was placed among the desirable values for a historian to hold and to exercise in his own ...

Some philosophers of science have recently argued that the epistemic assessment of complex simulation models, such as climate models, cannot be free of the influence of social values. In their view, the assignment of ...

This paper assesses both the practical and the epistemic value of Pyrrhonism as this stance is described in Sextus Empiricus’s extant writings. It will first be explored whether the Pyrrhonist’s suspension of judgment and ...