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Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2022 Epistemic beliefs are one’s assumptions about knowledge and knowing. Given the research in educational psychology that established epistemic beliefs as reliable predictors of student success, we devised a pedagogical intervention to improve students ...
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Epistemic Perceptualism, Skill, and the Regress Problem [PDF]
, 2019 A novel solution is offered for how emotional experiences can function as sources of immediate prima facie justification for evaluative beliefs, and in such a way that suffices to halt a justificatory regress.
Carter, J. Adam
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Belief gambles in epistemic decision theory [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 2020 Don’t form beliefs on the basis of coin flips or random guesses. More generally, don’t take belief gambles: if a proposition is no more likely to be true than false given your total body of evidence, don’t go ahead and believe that proposition. Few would deny this seemingly innocuous piece of epistemic advice.
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Knowing, Thinking, and Learning
Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2022 We examined the relationship between the levels of sophistication (high-sophisticated and low-sophisticated) of students’ domain general epistemic beliefs and an important component of students’ critical thinking skills—their ability to evaluate ...
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Epistemic beliefs as a determinant in evidence-based practice in physiotherapy – a multi-country (Europe) cross-sectional online survey study [PDF]
, 2017 [Abstract] Purpose: This article assumes that, in order to improve evidence-based practice in physiotherapy, practitioners need sophisticated epistemic beliefs. Epistemic beliefs, or how physiotherapists view knowledge and how they come to this knowledge,
Almeida, Patricia Maria Duarte de +7 more
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Conservation of epistemic responsibility by external epistemic in point of view of Ayatollah Javadi Amoli [PDF]
حکمت اسرا, 2021 Epistemic duty issue is one of the most important subjects in epistemology. In contrast to the externalism approach, which emphasizes on epistemic duty and responsibility for justification of a belief, the internalism approach regarding epistemology is ...
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Epistemic Closure in Folk Epistemology [PDF]
, 2018 We report the results of four empirical studies designed to investigate the extent to which an epistemic closure principle for knowledge is reflected in folk epistemology.
Beebe, James R., Monaghan, Jake
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Background: The number of studies on how to foster change toward advanced epistemic beliefs (i.e., beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing) is continuously growing because these beliefs are an important predictor of learning outcomes.
Martin Kerwer, Tom Rosman
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In Defense of the Epistemic Imperative [PDF]
, 2018 Sample (2015) argues that scientists ought not to believe that their theories are true because they cannot fulfill the epistemic obligation to take the diachronic perspective on their theories. I reply that Sample’s argument imposes an inordinately heavy
A Chakravartty +26 more
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Epistemically useful false beliefs [PDF]
Philosophical Explorations, 2017 Our interest is in the possibility of there being a philosophically interesting set of useful false beliefs where the utility in question is specifically epistemic. As we will see, it is hard to delineate plausible candidates in this regard, though several are promising at first blush. We begin with the kind of strictly false claims that are said to be
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