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Epistemic Health, Epistemic Immunity and Epistemic Inoculation
, 2022 This paper introduces three new concepts: epistemic health, epistemic immunity, and epistemic inoculation. Epistemic health is a measure of how well an entity (e.g. person, community, nation) is functioning with regard to various epistemic goods or ideals. It is constituted by many different factors (e.g. possessing true beliefs, being disposed to make
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Religious Studies, 2022 AbstractA prominent view in religious epistemology, which I call divine-help epistemology, says that people of faith are epistemically gifted by God, whereas non-believers are subject to the noetic effects of a fallen world. This view aims to show how religious beliefs for people of faith can be epistemically justified.
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The politics of the surgical mask: Challenging the biomedical episteme during a pandemic
Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice, 2021 COVID‐19 has seen politicians use a selective ‘science’ to justify restrictions on mobility and association, to mandate the wearing of face masks, and to close public infrastructure.
S. Neilson
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Unassertability And The Appearance Of Ignorance [PDF]
, 2014 Whether it seems that you know something depends in part upon practical factors. When the stakes are low, it can seem to you that you know that p, but when the stakes go up it'll seem to you that you don't. The apparent sensitivity of knowledge to stakes
Pynn, Geoff
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Epistemic/Non‐epistemic Dependence [PDF]
Noûs, 2017 AbstractI foreground the principle of epistemic dependence. I isolate that relation and distinguish it from other relations and note what it does and does not entail. In particular, I distinguish between dependence and necessitation. This has many interesting consequences.
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A review of professionalism within LIS [PDF]
, 2017 Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of professionalism within Library and Information Science (LIS) and in doing so draw comparisons with the education and medicine professions.
Cannon, Paul
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Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2020 Actions can have, or lack, moral worth. When a person’s action is morally worthy, she not only acts rightly, but does so in a way that reflects well on her and in such a way that she is creditable for doing what is right. In this paper, I introduce an analogue of moral worth that applies to belief, which I call epistemic worth.
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, 2018 In almost any domain of endeavour, successes can be attained through skill, but also by dumb luck. An archer’s wildest shots occasionally hit the target. Against enormous odds, some fair lottery tickets happen to win. The same goes in the case of purely cognitive or intellectual endeavours.
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Undaunted Explanationism [PDF]
, 2017 Explanationism is a plausible view of epistemic justification according to which justification is a matter of explanatory considerations. Despite its plausibility, explanationism is not without its critics. In a recent issue of this journal T.
McCain, Kevin
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