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Spontaneous Cognition and Epistemic Agency in the Cognitive Niche [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
According to Thomas Metzinger, many human cognitive processes in the waking state are spontaneous and are deprived of the experience of epistemic agency. He considers mind wandering as a paradigm example of our recurring loss of epistemic agency.
Regina E Fabry
exaly   +4 more sources

A brief discussion of the empirical plausibility of the Reflective Epistemic Agency [PDF]

open access: yesTrans/Form/Ação, 2022
This paper aims to discuss one specific feature of Sosa’s performance epistemology, which is what we call Reflective Epistemic Agency. We argue that Sosa defends a problematic version of epistemic agency on its reflective level.
Felipe Rocha Lima Santos   +1 more
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Epistemic Theodicy, Epistemic Evil, and Epistemic Responsibility

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The paper explores the concept of epistemic theodicy and strengthens an argument that reconciles human fallibility with the existence of an all-powerful and benevolent God.
Vojko Strahovnik
doaj   +1 more source

The Constitutive Aim of Inquiry

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2023
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in epistemic agency among philosophers. This development is in part owing to a growing interest in mental agency and epistemic normativity, along with associated concepts such as epistemic responsibility
Andrei Buckareff
doaj   +1 more source

Religious Belief and Intellectual Autonomy [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2015
Intellectual autonomy indicates how human being can preserve her epistemic agency and intellectually manage and regulate herself. This epistemic value is commonly proposed against intellectual heteronomy according to which the believer is not capable of ...
Amirhossein Khodaparast
doaj   +1 more source

Discussion Protocol for Alleviating Epistemic Injustice: The Case of Community Rehabilitation Interaction and Female Substance Abusers

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2021
Substance-abusing women are vulnerable to specific kinds of epistemic injustice, including stigmatization and discrimination. This article examines the development of the epistemic agency of female substance abusers by asking: How does the use of a ...
Petra Auvinen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

WHAT’S VOLUNTARY IN STANCE VOLUNTARISM?

open access: yesManuscrito, 2021
Stance voluntarism highlights the role of the will in epistemic agency, claiming that agents can control the epistemic stances they assume in forming beliefs.
BRUNO MALAVOLTA E SILVA
doaj   +1 more source

Epistemic Oppression and Affective Exclusion

open access: yesPassion, 2023
Epistemic oppression is the systematic exclusion of oppressed groups from knowledge-making practices. One of the goals of feminist epistemology is to understand the nature of the barriers preventing oppressed individuals from realising their epistemic ...
Aleksandra Hernandez
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Engaged Epistemic Agents

open access: yesCrítica, 2018
Our aim in this paper is to throw some light on the kind of normativity characteristic of human knowledge. We describe the epistemic normative domain as that field of human agency defined by knowledge understood as an achievement.
Fernando Broncano, Jesús Vega
doaj   +1 more source

Agency Evidentialism: Trust and Doxastic Voluntarism

open access: yesRivista di Estetica, 2018
In debates about trust and testimony, epistemologists have traditionally been divided into two groups: those who hold that accepting the testimony of other people should be a kind of credulity without evidence (anti-reductivism) and those who assert that
Snježana Prijić-Samaržija
doaj   +1 more source

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