1. Knowledge and Belief in Placebo Effect.
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CHIFFI, DANIELE and ZANOTTI, RENZO
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PLACEBOS , *MEDICAL logic , *SELF-realization , *THEORY of knowledge , *MEDICAL ethics - Abstract
The beliefs involved in the placebo effect are often assumed to be self-fulfilling, that is, the truth of these beliefs would merely require the patient to hold them. Such a view is commonly shared in epistemology. Many epistemologists focused, in fact, on the self-fulfilling nature of these beliefs, which have been investigated because they raise some important counterexamples to Nozick's "tracking theory of knowledge." We challenge the self-fulfilling nature of placebo-based beliefs in multi-agent contexts, analyzing their deep epistemological nature and the role of higher-order beliefs involved in the placebo effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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