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Modification:Sciento-2019-0014 (view source)
Revision as of 15:14, 11 October 2020
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|Date Suggested Day=26
|Date Suggested Approximate=No
|Authors List=Paul Patton,
|Resource=Patton (2019)
|Preamble=The concept of an ''epistemic agent'' was made reference to by [[Hakob Barseghyan|Barseghyan]],[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2018)]] but currently lacks a scientonomic definition. [[Community|Communities]] are taken to be capable of [[Epistemic Agents - Community (Barseghyan-2015)|"bearing a scientific mosaic"]].[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 43-52]] Yet, there are many uncertainties about what "bearing a mosaic" actually means. For example, must a bearer of a mosaic be familiar, in full detail, with every theory, question, and method in the mosaic? Given such uncertainties it is not clear that "mosaic bearing" is actually the best way to characterize epistemic agency. In addition, the issue of whether individuals can be epistemic agents, or whether tools and instruments can be requires clarification. For all these reasons, a clear definition of [[Epistemic Agent|epistemic agent]] is needed.
|Modification=|To Accept=Epistemic Agent (Patton-2019),
|Automatic=No
|Verdict=OpenAccepted|Date Assessed Year=2020|Date Assessed Month=October|Date Assessed Day=11
|Date Assessed Approximate=No
|Verdict Rationale=The modification was characterized as "a very welcome addition to the scientonomic ontology" for despite all the talks of epistemic agents "the very notion of epistemic agency has remained unclear" for years,<sup>[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2019-0014#comment-112|c1]]</sup> for its "strict explication has been lacking".<sup>[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2019-0014#comment-133|c2]]</sup> It was agreed that the definition is an important starting point for our discussions concerning individual and communal agents.<sup>[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2019-0014#comment-112|c3]][[Modification_talk:Sciento-2019-0014#comment-133|c4]]</sup> It was also noted that the definition is important for addressing the "the question of agency of epistemic tools" <sup>[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2019-0014#comment-112|c5]]</sup> and the question of "the applicability of scientonomic laws to individual agents".<sup>[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2019-0014#comment-133|c6]]</sup>
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