EPR - Epistemological Profile Radar

Welcome to the EPR, a philosophical tool for diagnosing, mapping, and analysing epistemological stances that supports cognitive alignment within interdisciplinary collaborations.

The EPR was designed and developed during the postdoctoral research project titled “The Role of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Research and the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Addressing Epistemological and Meaning-Related Challenges” and forms the first in a series of digital tools aimed at enhancing more effective collaboration across diverse scientific disciplines and promoting knowledge integration.

The EPR is designed for use at the initial stage of interdisciplinary collaboration and is especially beneficial for early-career scientists, doctoral researchers, and postgraduate students, as it highlights points of convergence and divergence in their fundamental stances and assumptions with which they enter a team science research project. Besides enhancing research collaboration, the tool promotes epistemological self-awareness and self-regulated adaptation in interdisciplinary contexts.

The operation of the tool involves users expressing their level of “agreement–disagreement” with a series of statements on important issues in the philosophy of science, which are grouped into eight variables.

The process of answering the statements takes approximately 15 minutes.

There are no right or wrong answers; instead, the goal is to map initial stances, which allows comparison of different users' profiles and positions each profile within the range of a functional score on the “Epistemic Virtue Intex”.

After completing the process, a personalised graphical representation is automatically generated and, along with additional information, sent to the user’s email address. The results from the EPR diagnostic tool are exported in a format suitable for input into AiPi, an Artificial Intelligence assistant, for analysis and further processing.

All profiles generated by the tool are used exclusively for statistical purposes, and users’ personal data remains confidential. However, users may, if they so wish, share their personalised chart via a dedicated link.

The various components of the tool are subject to continuous refinement, and feedback from the academic community is therefore highly valuable.