Process Essentialism and the Epistemology of Academic Knowledge: Why How We Write Should Not Determine What We Know
Published in Synthese, 2026
This article argues that academic knowledge claims should be evaluated primarily by publicly inspectable reasons and evidence, rather than by the private process through which the prose was produced.
Recommended citation: Ochiai, Masaya. 2026. "Process Essentialism and the Epistemology of Academic Knowledge: Why How We Write Should Not Determine What We Know." Synthese 207, 200. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-026-05580-3.