ADR-006: epistemology and logic join the philosophy group

Context

The 2026-09-26 sweep of the papers-feed tracker for philosophy seeded dossiers for 119 works. The dossiers were limited to the closed topic list, and two kinds of work did not fit it:

• Epistemology. Knowledge is not always more valuable than mere true belief had no topic at all; its dossier said none — wants: epistemology. Others were tagged with the nearest wrong word, and their dossiers said so:
  • Pettigrew’s What is purely epistemic normativity, and why? was tagged ethics, because the normativity is epistemic, not moral.
  • The epistemic-injustice paper and Keeley’s two conspiracy-theory papers had approximate tags.
  • Pettigrew’s The epistemology of accurate credences, Douglas on inductive risk, Reiss’s pragmatist theory of evidence, and the work on evidence-based medicine and explanatory power sat under philosophy-of-science. That covers what science says about the world, not what it is to know or to have evidence.
• Logic. Turner’s Ultrafilters as Propositional Theories is a logic tutorial, and its dossier said none — wants: logic. Marabini on Brandom’s inferentialism is about meaning as inferential role.

The record’s rule is that a missing word is added, not approximated.

Decision

Add epistemology and logic to topics, each with a label and a blurb, and to the philosophy tag group (ADR-003, ADR-004). The group stays a label (require: any).

Alternatives

• Keep philosophy-of-science for the evidence papers. That is the nearest wrong tag. The rule this record adopted is meant to prevent exactly that.
• Leave logic out, and drop or approximate the one or two works that want it. A word used by one work is still a word the record needs to file that work honestly. Nothing about the vocabulary is finished.
• Add philosophy-of-mind as well. Three works on mental causation and physicalism (Pernu twice, and Poltorak) reached for it. They are honestly described by metaphysics, with agency or philosophy-of-science, and the group already holds consciousness and cognition. Not added, but open to revisit if a work cannot be placed without it.

Consequences

The works from the sweep are filed with these words where they apply: epistemology on fourteen and logic on two. The already-held works were not retagged in this change.