Rob Parisien, MD, FAAOS

Other Essays

Working papers in epistemology and analytic metaphysics, several with an eye toward surgical reasoning. These are drafts in progress, shared as commentary rather than settled conclusions. Each is formatted for reading or printing.

Constrained Permissivism
On the Epistemology of Disagreement: Why two competent surgeons can read the same evidence and rationally disagree.
What Kind of Thing Is a Prior?
On the epistemic bases of clinical prior credence in surgery
Two Readings of “Surgery Causes Union”
Causal Ambiguity in Constructed Surgical Endpoints