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Indoctrination and Democratic Legitimacy
ABSTRACT I argue that indoctrination undermines voter competence, and that widespread indoctrination thereby compromises the legitimacy of otherwise free and fair elections. Drawing on recent work in virtue epistemology, I provide an epistemic account of indoctrination according to which one is indoctrinated only if they hold an epistemically impactful
James H. McIntyre
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Dogmatism and Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic?
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes and objects to the anti‐skeptical strategy endorsed by Epistemological Dogmatism. Dogmatism is a theory of epistemic justification that holds perceptual warrant for our beliefs is immediate, based on experiential seemings. Crucially, it rejects requests for higher‐order justification or active defense of the justification ...
Guido Tana
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ABSTRACT I develop and defend a sense‐datum theory of perception. My theory follows the spirit of classic sense‐datum theories: I argue that what it is to have a perceptual experience is to be acquainted with some sense‐data, where sense‐data are private particulars that have all the properties they appear to have, that are common to both perception ...
Andrew Y. Lee
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Stigma and Rawlsian Liberalism
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Euan Allison
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Dogmatism, Materialism and Faith in Graham Greene’s Prose
This article deals with materialism, religious dogmatism and faith in Graham Greene’s novels The Power and the Glory (1940), The Heart of the Matter (1948), and the short story “The Hint of an Explanation” (1954).
Bohdan Vysloužil
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ABSTRACT There is growing interest in the role of cognitive flexibility in the development of politically motivated violence and a willingness to self‐sacrifice. However, the construct of flexibility has been applied in multiple ways across disciplines, resulting in conceptual ambiguity and methodological challenges.
Sebastian Deverson +2 more
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ABSTRACT This article presents findings from a workshop in an anti‐racist teacher education course. Drawing from raciolinguistic ideologies, anti‐Black linguistic racism, and Extraordinary Pedagogies rooted in anti‐bigotry praxes, the workshop engaged white teacher candidates (TCs) to interrogate standard academic English as a racialized norm that ...
Di Liang +2 more
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The article examines Immanuel Kant’s psychological and transcendental analysis of the factors that determine human actions in different ways and with different strengths.
Viktor Kozlovskyi
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The Origins of Platonists' Dogmatism [PDF]
The author argues, that the exigencies of inter‐school rivalry, initially between the Academy and the Peripatos, but then between later Platonists and both Stoics and Aristotelians, demanded that Platonism become more formalized than it was left by Plato
Dillon, John
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Abstract The midpoint of the left‐right self‐placement item is the most populated of all response options. While genuinely‐centrist responders opt to self‐place there, it is also a convenient response option for those that cannot easily fit their politics to the left‐right spectrum.
Edward J. R. Clarke +6 more
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