Werndl, Charlotte (2025) Vaccine Recommendations and Epistemic Competence. [Preprint]

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In this contribution I will start by introducing epistemic competence. I will stress that like Bussmann, I regard it as fundamental that people in a democratic society possess epistemic competence and that it would be important to teach epistemic competence at school. I show that even for countries where the epidemiological situation is roughly the same or very similar such as Austria, Germany and Switzerland, there are often very different recommendations concerning vaccinations. Then I will identify and discuss five rational reasons that can alone or in combination lead to different vaccine recommendations. Finally, I will reflect on epistemic competence and vaccine recommendations. In particular, I will point out that different vaccine recommendations are an example where students can develop epistemic competence. Further, I will stress that different vaccine recommendations are an example where epistemic competence among the general population is desirable; if it is not present, this can lead to science scepticism and mistrust about science.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Werndl, Charlotte charlotte.werndl@sbg.ac.at
Additional Information:	Published in: F. Brosow / V. Haase / E. Martens/ P. Thomas / M.Tiedemann / C. Werndl (Hg.) Selbstverständnisse der Philosophiedidaktik zwischen Fachphilosophie und Interdisziplinarität Festschrift für Bettina Bussmann. Springer: 2025, 65-72. This research was funded in whole or in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [COE 03]. For open access purposes, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any author-accepted manuscript version arising from this submission.
Subjects:	General Issues > Data General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Medicine General Issues > Science and Policy General Issues > Values In Science
Depositing User:	Charlotte Werndl
Date Deposited:	12 Jun 2025 12:31
Last Modified:	12 Jun 2025 12:31
Item ID:	25681
Subjects:	General Issues > Data General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Medicine General Issues > Science and Policy General Issues > Values In Science
Date:	2025
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/25681

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