Which School of Ancient Greco-Roman Philosophy is Most Appropriate for Life in a Time of Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13123993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John M Chase (0000-0001-9255-5721, École Normale Supérieure - PSL, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-31 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Eidos A Journal for Philosophy of Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2544-302X • E-ISSN: 2544-302X |
| Publisher | University of Warsaw (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2021.0002 |
| OpenAlex | W3189824421 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
The author argues that ancient Skepticism may be most suited to deal with two crises in the Age of COVID-19: both the physical or epidemiological aspects of the pandemic, and the epistemological and ethical crisis of increasing disbelief in the sciences. Following Michel Bitbol, I suggest one way to mitigate this crisis of faith may be for science to become more epistemically modest, renouncing some of its claims to describe reality as it objectively is, and adopting an "intransitive" rather than a "transitive" approach to Nature. This was the attitude adopted by the Greco-Roman medical school of the Empirics, which may also be of assistance in combatting the urgent problem of Fake News. The epistemology of Skepticism and the scientific methodology of the closely related Medical Empiricism shows that an epistemically modest, non-interventionist approach to science is quite compatible with a robust and sophisticated proto-experimental scientific methodology
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Denial · Empiricism · Epistemology · Faith · Pandemic · Philosophy of science · Psychoanalysis · Skepticism · Transitive relation · Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills · Education, Psychology, and Complexity Research · Mathematics · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |