Author: Ricardo Limongi França Coelho, Luis Carlos Coelho

Who is the midwife and who is the parturient? The maieutic perspective for rethinking authorship and epistemic responsibility in the use of AI in scientific output

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The Socratic maieutic perspective offers a philosophical framework for rethinking the use of AI in scientific output. Instead of an oracle that provides answers, AI can be a dialogical partner that helps researchers to make latent knowledge explicit and thus reposition the discussion about authorship: the researcher remains the responsible epistemic agent, while AI acts as an intellectual midwife. Read More →