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Arguments from Ignorance, Coverage, and Bubbles
Informal LogicIn “Epistemic Coverage and Argument Closure,” Catherine Hundleby brings together Sanford Goldberg’s work in social epistemology with Douglas Walton’s work in argumentation theory, on the topic of arguments from ignorance and truth-to-testimony ...
Patrick Bondy
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Radical Scepticism and the Epistemology of Confusion [PDF]
, 2019 The lack of knowledge—as Timothy Williamson (2000) famously maintains—is ignorance. Radical sceptical arguments, at least in the tradition of Descartes, threaten universal ignorance.
Carter, J. Adam
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De l’art d’argumenter et de convaincre : Alejo Venegas ou la dialectique de la persuasion
Atalaya, 2019 This work focuses on the argumentative techniques that Alejo Venegas de Busto, a 16th century moralist from Toledo, uses in his writings. The analysis of a corpus of various texts written by this author, from the most widespread to the least known ...
Marc Zuili
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Experiments in Distributive Justice and Their Limits [PDF]
, 2016 Mark Pennington argues political systems should be decentralized in order to facilitate experimental learning about distributive justice. Pointing out the problems with Pennington's Hayekian formulation, I reframe his argument as an extension of the ...
Bennett, Michael
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Embodied ways of knowing. [PDF]
, 2004 In this article I present an argument for `embodied ways of knowing' as an alternative epistemological strategy, drawing on feminist research and embodied experience.
Barbour, Karen
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Not knowing the Oriental [PDF]
, 2003 This paper marks the twenty-fifth year of Edward Said's Orientalism by reconsidering the knowledge/power paradigm that has dominated much thinking about colonial discourse after Said.
Kerr, DWF
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Rancière and the poetics of the social sciences [PDF]
, 2009 This article reviews the significance of Jacques Rancière’s work for methodological debates in the social sciences, and education specifically. It explores the implications of framing methodology as an aesthetic endeavour, rather than as the applied ...
Pelletier, Caroline
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, 2013 The argument against skepticism relying on content externalism, which was made famous by Hilary Putnam, has been considered inconclusive by many philosophers. However, some believe that this argument has precluded the possibility of skeptical hypotheses.
Montplaisir, Samuel
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Coping with uncertainty in public health: the use of heuristics [PDF]
, 2014 The observation that experts and lay people use cognitive shortcuts or heuristics to arrive at judgements about complex problems is certainly not new.
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The Problem of Ignorance [PDF]
, 2020 Holly Smith (2014) contends that subjective deontological theories – those that hold that our moral duties are sensitive to our beliefs about our situation – cannot correctly determine whether one ought to gather more information before acting.
Lee-Stronach, Chad
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