,Studies in Applied Philosophy,
Epistemology and Rational Ethics
Daniele Chiffi
Clinical Reasoning:
Knowledge,
Uncertainty, and
Values in Health
Care
,Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology
and Rational Ethics
Volume 58
Editor-in-Chief
Lorenzo Magnani, Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, University of
Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Editorial Board
Atocha Aliseda
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico, Mexico
Giuseppe Longo
CNRS - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Centre Cavailles, Paris, France
Chris Sinha
School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, Changsha, China
Paul Thagard
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
John Woods
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
, Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE)
publishes new developments and advances in all the fields of philosophy,
epistemology, and ethics, bringing them together with a cluster of scientific
disciplines and technological outcomes: ranging from computer science to life
sciences, from economics, law, and education to engineering, logic, and mathe-
matics, from medicine to physics, human sciences, and politics. The series aims at
covering all the challenging philosophical and ethical themes of contemporary
society, making them appropriately applicable to contemporary theoretical and
practical problems, impasses, controversies, and conflicts. Our scientific and
technological era has offered “new” topics to all areas of philosophy and ethics – for
instance concerning scientific rationality, creativity, human and artificial intelli-
gence, social and folk epistemology, ordinary reasoning, cognitive niches and
cultural evolution, ecological crisis, ecologically situated rationality, consciousness,
freedom and responsibility, human identity and uniqueness, cooperation, altruism,
intersubjectivity and empathy, spirituality, violence. The impact of such topics has
been mainly undermined by contemporary cultural settings, whereas they should
increase the demand of interdisciplinary applied knowledge and fresh and original
understanding. In turn, traditional philosophical and ethical themes have been
profoundly affected and transformed as well: they should be further examined as
embedded and applied within their scientific and technological environments so to
update their received and often old-fashioned disciplinary treatment and appeal.
Applying philosophy individuates therefore a new research commitment for the
21st century, focused on the main problems of recent methodological, logical,
epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling activities employed both in
intellectual and scientific discovery, and in technological innovation, including the
computational tools intertwined with such practices, to understand them in a wide
and integrated perspective. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and
Rational Ethics means to demonstrate the contemporary practical relevance of this
novel philosophical approach and thus to provide a home for monographs, lecture
notes, selected contributions from specialized conferences and workshops as well as
selected Ph.D. theses. The series welcomes contributions from philosophers as well
as from scientists, engineers, and intellectuals interested in showing how applying
philosophy can increase knowledge about our current world. Initial proposals can
be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Lorenzo Magnani, :
• A short synopsis of the work or the introduction chapter
• The proposed Table of Contents
• The CV of the lead author(s).
For more information, please contact the Editor-in-Chief at .
Indexed by SCOPUS, ISI and Springerlink. The books of the series are submitted
for indexing to Web of Science.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10087
Epistemology and Rational Ethics
Daniele Chiffi
Clinical Reasoning:
Knowledge,
Uncertainty, and
Values in Health
Care
,Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology
and Rational Ethics
Volume 58
Editor-in-Chief
Lorenzo Magnani, Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, University of
Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Editorial Board
Atocha Aliseda
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico, Mexico
Giuseppe Longo
CNRS - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Centre Cavailles, Paris, France
Chris Sinha
School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, Changsha, China
Paul Thagard
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
John Woods
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
, Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE)
publishes new developments and advances in all the fields of philosophy,
epistemology, and ethics, bringing them together with a cluster of scientific
disciplines and technological outcomes: ranging from computer science to life
sciences, from economics, law, and education to engineering, logic, and mathe-
matics, from medicine to physics, human sciences, and politics. The series aims at
covering all the challenging philosophical and ethical themes of contemporary
society, making them appropriately applicable to contemporary theoretical and
practical problems, impasses, controversies, and conflicts. Our scientific and
technological era has offered “new” topics to all areas of philosophy and ethics – for
instance concerning scientific rationality, creativity, human and artificial intelli-
gence, social and folk epistemology, ordinary reasoning, cognitive niches and
cultural evolution, ecological crisis, ecologically situated rationality, consciousness,
freedom and responsibility, human identity and uniqueness, cooperation, altruism,
intersubjectivity and empathy, spirituality, violence. The impact of such topics has
been mainly undermined by contemporary cultural settings, whereas they should
increase the demand of interdisciplinary applied knowledge and fresh and original
understanding. In turn, traditional philosophical and ethical themes have been
profoundly affected and transformed as well: they should be further examined as
embedded and applied within their scientific and technological environments so to
update their received and often old-fashioned disciplinary treatment and appeal.
Applying philosophy individuates therefore a new research commitment for the
21st century, focused on the main problems of recent methodological, logical,
epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling activities employed both in
intellectual and scientific discovery, and in technological innovation, including the
computational tools intertwined with such practices, to understand them in a wide
and integrated perspective. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and
Rational Ethics means to demonstrate the contemporary practical relevance of this
novel philosophical approach and thus to provide a home for monographs, lecture
notes, selected contributions from specialized conferences and workshops as well as
selected Ph.D. theses. The series welcomes contributions from philosophers as well
as from scientists, engineers, and intellectuals interested in showing how applying
philosophy can increase knowledge about our current world. Initial proposals can
be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Lorenzo Magnani, :
• A short synopsis of the work or the introduction chapter
• The proposed Table of Contents
• The CV of the lead author(s).
For more information, please contact the Editor-in-Chief at .
Indexed by SCOPUS, ISI and Springerlink. The books of the series are submitted
for indexing to Web of Science.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10087
