Local Epistemic Action (Allen-2023)

This is a definition of Local Epistemic Action that states "An epistemic action that is not available trans-historically to all epistemic agents, but is specific to some time periods or some agents."

This definition of Local Epistemic Action was formulated by Joshua Allen in 2023.1

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Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Verdict	Verdict Rationale	Date Assessed
Sciento-2023-0006	Scientonomy	31 December 2023	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.	Open

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Local Epistemic Action (Allen-2023) is an attempt to answer the following question: What is local epistemic action? How should it be defined?

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Description

Allen suggests that local actions are the ones that are not universally available but are specific to a time period and/or an agent. For example "such epistemic actions as simulating, experimenting, or modelling seem to be local actions since they need not necessarily be part of the repertoire of epistemic actions of all conceivable epistemic agents; such local actions emerge at a certain time and become available to some but not all epistemic agents".1p. 79

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