Information environments, epistemic selves, and life’s end

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This paper examines how information environments shape individuals in the construction of what we dub epistemic selfhood. Using euthanasia as an illustration, we argue that end-of-life decision-making potentially suffers from this process when epistemic selfhood is malformed leading to decisions that lack proper justification. Our argument draws on Ian Hacking’s constructivist account of selves vi