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Authority and Trust: Reflections on Linda Zagzebski’s Epistemic Autohrity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Our modern egalitarian and individualistic age is suspicious of authority, and in recent times there have been almost daily reports in the press of cases where trust in various authorities, including financial, governmental, political and religious, has ...
Cottingham, John
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Communal and Institutional Trust: Authority in Religion and Politics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Linda Zagzebski’s book on epistemic authority is an impressive and stimulating treatment of an important topic. 1 I admire the way she manages to combine imagination, originality and argumentative control.
Coady, C. A. J.
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Death Determination and Clinicians’ Epistemic Authority

open access: yesThe American Journal of Bioethics, 2020
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Rodríguez Arias Vailhen, David   +2 more
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Reliability of a Speaker and Recognition of a Listener: Bocheński and Nyāya on the Relation of Authority [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the Nyāyasūtras (NS), the fundamental text of the Nyāya tradition, testimony is defined as a statement of a reliable speaker (āpta). According to the NS, such a speaker should possess three qualities: competence, honesty and desire to speak.
Rostalska, Agnieszka
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Timing Mechanotransduction: Mechanically Dynamic Biomaterials Reveal the Temporal Hierarchy of YAP/TAZ Control Nodes

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This work develops dynamically softening polyacrylamide hydrogels for time‐resolved imaging during continuous mechanical transitions. The study revealed that mechanotransduction is biphasic; YAP/TAZ inactivation is driven by early loss of the nucleocytoskeletal continuum connecting subnuclear adhesions, F‐actin, and the nuclear envelope, coupled with ...
Alessandro Gandin   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assurance Views of Testimony [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Assurance theories of testimony attempt to explain what is distinctive about testimony as a form of epistemic warrant or justification. The most characteristic assurance theories hold that a distinctive subclass of assertion (acts of “telling”) involves ...
Nickel, Philip J.
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Spintronic Bayesian Hardware Driven by Stochastic Magnetic Domain Wall Dynamics

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Magnetic Probabilistic Computing (MPC) utilizes intrinsic stochastic dynamics in domain walls to establish a hardware foundation for uncertainty‐aware artificial intelligence. Thermally driven domain‐wall fluctuations, voltage‐controlled magnetic anisotropy, and TMR readout enable fully electrical, tunable probabilistic inference.
Tianyi Wang   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mental Health Experts as Objects of Epistemic Injustice—The Case of Autism Spectrum Condition

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2023
This theoretical paper addresses the issue of epistemic injustice with particular reference to autism. Injustice is epistemic when harm is performed without adequate reason and is caused by or related to access to knowledge production and processing, e.g.
Maciej Wodziński, Marcin Moskalewicz
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping Identity Prejudice: Locations of Epistemic Injustice in Philosophy for/with Children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This article aims to map the locations of identity prejudice that occurs in the context of a Community of Inquiry. My claim is that epistemic injustice, which usually originates from seemingly ‘minor’ cases of identity prejudice, can potentially leak ...
Elicor, Peter Paul Ejera
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Informal fallacies as cognitive heuristics in public health reasoning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The public must make assessments of a range of health-related issues. However, these assessments require scientific knowledge which is often lacking or ineffectively utilized by the public.
Cummings, L
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