Joshua Allen

Joshua Allen is a Canadian scientonomer notable for his work on epistemic practice and the mechanism of local action availability.

Suggested Modifications

Here are all the modifications suggested by Allen:

• Sciento-2023-0005: Accept the definition of epistemic action as an action of an epistemic agent that involves an epistemic element. The modification was suggested to Scientonomy community by Joshua Allen on 31 December 2023.1 The modification is currently being evaluated; a verdict is pending.
• Sciento-2023-0006: Accept that epistemic actions can be local or global. Also accept the definition of global epistemic action as an epistemic action that is available to all epistemic agents trans-historically and universally and the definition of local epistemic action as an epistemic action that is not available trans-historically to all epistemic agents, but is specific to some time periods or some agents. The modification was suggested to Scientonomy community by Joshua Allen on 31 December 2023.1 The modification is currently being evaluated; a verdict is pending.
• Sciento-2023-0007: Accept that the a local action A is said to be available to an epistemic agent iff that agent employs the norm “A is permissible/desirable”. Also accept the theorem of local action availability as a deductive consequence of this definition and the law of norm employment: a local epistemic action becomes available to an agent only when its permissibility/desirability is derivable from a non-empty subset of other elements of the agent’s mosaic. The modification was suggested to Scientonomy community by Joshua Allen on 31 December 2023.1 The modification is currently being evaluated; a verdict is pending. The modification can only become accepted once modification Sciento-2023-0006 becomes accepted.

Theories

The following table contains all the theories formulated by Allen:

Title	Type	Formulation	Formulated In
Global Epistemic Action Is a Subtype of Epistemic Action (Allen-2023)	Descriptive	Global Epistemic Action is a subtype of Epistemic Action, i.e. epistemic action is a supertype of global epistemic action.	2023
Local Action Availability theorem (Allen-2023)	Descriptive	A local epistemic action becomes available to an agent only when its permissibility/desirability is derivable from a non-empty subset of other elements of the agent’s mosaic.	2023
Global Epistemic Action Exists	Descriptive	There is such a thing as a global epistemic action.	2023
Local Action Availability (Allen-2023)	Definition	A local action A is said to be available to an epistemic agent iff that agent employs the norm “A is permissible/desirable”.	2023
Epistemic Action (Allen-2023)	Definition	An action of an epistemic agent that involves an epistemic element.	2023
Local Epistemic Action (Allen-2023)	Definition	An epistemic action that is not available trans-historically to all epistemic agents, but is specific to some time periods or some agents.	2023
Local Action Availability theorem (Allen-2023) Reason1		The local action availability theorem is a deductive consequence of the law of norm employment and the definition of local action availability	2023
Epistemic Action Exists	Descriptive	There is such a thing as an epistemic action.	2023
Local Epistemic Action Exists	Descriptive	There is such a thing as a local epistemic action.	2023
Global Epistemic Action (Allen-2023)	Definition	An epistemic action that is available to all epistemic agents trans-historically and universally.	2023
Local Epistemic Action Is a Subtype of Epistemic Action (Allen-2023)	Descriptive	Local Epistemic Action is a subtype of Epistemic Action, i.e. epistemic action is a supertype of local epistemic action.	2023

Questions

Here are all the questions formulated by Allen:

• Associations of Epistemic Action: How is the class of epistemic action associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between epistemic actions, as well as between an epistemic action and instances of other classes?
• Associations of Global Epistemic Action: How is the class of global epistemic action associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between global epistemic actions, as well as between a global epistemic action and instances of other classes?
• Associations of Local Action Availability: How is the class of local action availability associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of local action availability, as well as between local action availability and instances of other classes?
• Associations of Local Epistemic Action: How is the class of local epistemic action associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between local epistemic actions, as well as between a local epistemic action and instances of other classes?
• Disjointness of Epistemic Action: What other classes is the class of epistemic action disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with epistemic action?
• Disjointness of Global Epistemic Action: What other classes is the class of global epistemic action disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with global epistemic action?
• Disjointness of Local Action Availability: What other classes is the class of local action availability disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with local action availability?
• Disjointness of Local Epistemic Action: What other classes is the class of local epistemic action disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with local epistemic action?
• Epistemic Action: What is epistemic action? How should it be defined?
• Existence of Epistemic Action: Does an epistemic action exist?
• Existence of Global Epistemic Action: Does a global epistemic action exist?
• Existence of Local Action Availability: Does local action availability exist?
• Existence of Local Epistemic Action: Does a local epistemic action exist?
• Global Epistemic Action: What is global epistemic action? How should it be defined?
• Local Action Availability: What is local action availability? How should it be defined?
• Local Epistemic Action: What is local epistemic action? How should it be defined?
• Mechanism of Local Epistemic Action Availability: How does a local epistemic action become available to an epistemic agent? What should happen for a local epistemic action to become part of the repertoire of an epistemic agent?
• Subtypes of Epistemic Action: What are the subtypes of an epistemic action?
• Subtypes of Global Epistemic Action: What are the subtypes of a global epistemic action?
• Subtypes of Local Action Availability: What are the subtypes of local action availability?
• Subtypes of Local Epistemic Action: What are the subtypes of a local epistemic action?
• Supertypes of Epistemic Action: What are the supertypes of an epistemic action?
• Supertypes of Global Epistemic Action: What are the supertypes of a global epistemic action?
• Supertypes of Local Action Availability: What are the supertypes of local action availability?
• Supertypes of Local Epistemic Action: What are the supertypes of a local epistemic action?

Publications

Here are the works of Allen included in the bibliographic records of this encyclopedia:

• Friesen et al. (2023): Friesen, Izzy et al. (2023) Discussion of Suggested Modifications: Scientonomy Workshop, February 25, 2023. Scientonomy 5, D1-D32. Retrieved from https://scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/42265.
• Allen (2023): Allen, Joshua. (2023) Epistemic Actions: A Scientonomic Framework. Scientonomy 5, 73-91. Retrieved from https://scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/42266.

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