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(2002) Quantum mechanics, mathematics, cognition and action, Dordrecht, Springer.
The task of a formal epistemology is defined. It appears that a formal epistemology must be a generalization of "logic" in the sense of Wittgenstein's Tractatus. The generalization is required because, whereas logic presupposes a strict relation between activity and language, this relation may be broken in some domains of experimental enquiry (e.g., in microscopic physics). However, a formal epistemology should also retain a major feature of Wittgenstein's "logic": It must not be a discourse about scientific knowledge, but rather a way of making manifest the structures usually implicit in knowledge-gaining activity. This strategy is applied to the formalism of quantum mechanics.
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Bitbol, M. (2002)., Formalized epistemology, logic, and grammar, in M. Mugur Schchter (ed.), Quantum mechanics, mathematics, cognition and action, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 21-35.
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