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Loss of Epistemic Self-Determination in the Anthropocene [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
One serious harm facing communities in the Anthropocene is epistemic loss. This is increasingly recognized as a harm in international policy discourses around adaptation to climate change.
Werkheiser, Ian
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Modalisations a priori et a posteriori : le cas de would

open access: yesAnglophonia, 2015
The analysis presented in this paper is based on a distinction between modality and modalization – the latter being defined as the use which is made of modality according to what the speaker and the addressee know (or do not know) concerning the truth ...
Paul Larreya
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Epistemic instrumentalism, permissibility, and reasons for belief [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Epistemic instrumentalists seek to understand the normativity of epistemic norms on the model practical instrumental norms governing the relation between aims and means.
Steglich-Petersen, Asbjørn
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Conspiratorial Thinking During COVID-19: The Roles of Paranoia, Delusion-Proneness, and Intolerance of Uncertainty

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
The COVID-19 global pandemic has left many feeling a sense of profound uncertainty about their world, safety, and livelihood. Sources espousing misinformation and conspiracy theories frequently offer information that can help make sense of this ...
Emmett M. Larsen   +3 more
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What the Future ‘Might’ Brings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper concerns a puzzle about the interaction of epistemic modals and future tense. In cases of predictable forgetfulness, speakers cannot describe their future states of mind with epistemic modals under future tense, but promising theories of ...
Boylan, David
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Axiology and the process of the initial education of biology teachers [PDF]

open access: yesInvestigações em Ensino de Ciências, 2013
This article presents an axiological analysis of the information provided by graduate students in the last year of Biological Science Course, concerning their educational process into becoming a teacher. Using theoretical assumptions made by 3x3 matrix,
Lucken Bueno Lucas   +2 more
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Epistemic mustn’t in English

open access: yesCírculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2023
It is a widespread claim in the literature that there does not exist an epistemic use of the modal verb mustn’t in English. Instead, the form can’t is said to fill the gap in the system.
Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla
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Some considerations on the semi-modal auxiliary verbs [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Social Sciences, 2019
This paper deals with the livelised cost of electricity from gaseous biofuels, such as biogas and bio-syngas, produced from biodegradable waste, using different technologies (internal combustion engines, gas turbine, fuel cells) at different capacities ...
CIUMACENCO, Valentina
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A Gentle Introduction to Epistemic Planning: The DEL Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Epistemic planning can be used for decision making in multi-agent situations with distributed knowledge and capabilities. Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) has been shown to provide a very natural and expressive framework for epistemic planning.
Bolander, Thomas
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Scandalous ‘firsts’ from the Global South? The entanglement between epistemic injustice and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)

open access: yesJournal of Responsible Innovation
This paper examines the critical role of epistemic injustice in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), particularly through the lens of reproductive medicine scandals in the Global South.
Joy Y. Zhang
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