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The nature of empirical-scientific knowledge in general, and of medical knowledge in particular, is currently undergoing a pervasive transformation likely to mark the end of epistemology, including the type developed in preceding chapters. In what follows, we shall outline this imminent transformation by presenting a theory of technoconstructivism . Because of the significance of the issue we must be painstakingly precise.
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Sadegh-Zadeh, K. (2012). Technoconstructivism. In: Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine(), vol 113. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2260-6_12
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