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Knowing, Thinking, and Learning
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 ...
Srikanth Dandotkar +2 more
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Conservation of epistemic responsibility by external epistemic in point of view of Ayatollah Javadi Amoli [PDF]
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 ...
zeinab askarian +2 more
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Sexual Orientation, Ideology, and Philosophical Method
Here, I examine the epistemic relation between beliefs about the nature of sexual orientation (e.g. beliefs concerning whether orientation is dispositional) and beliefs about the taxonomy of orientation categories (e.g.
Matthew Andler
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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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The aim of this research is to investigate the relationships among high school students’ scientific epistemic beliefs, conceptions of learning physics and willingness to perform scientific studies in physics.
S Kapucu
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Belief as a non-epistemic adaptive benefit
Abstract Although rationalization about one's own beliefs and actions can improve an individual's future decisions, beliefs can provide other benefits unrelated to their epistemic truth value, such as group cohesion and identity.
Cunningham , William +2 more
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Does Optimism, Epistemic Beliefs and Problem-Solving Skills Influence Learners’ Attainment in Accounting Concepts? [PDF]
This study investigated the influence of optimism, epistemic beliefs, and problem-solving skills on learners’ attainment in Accounting concepts. The survey design of a descriptive type was adopted to elicit responses from 300 senior secondary school ...
Olugbenga A IGE* +1 more
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Changing epistemic beliefs? An exploratory study of cognition among prospective history teacher
This study explores changing epistemic beliefs in the history domain among 18 prospective history teachers. Drawing data from these college undergraduate history majors who were considering teaching careers, the study traces out an exploration of how ...
Bruce VanSledright, Kimberly Reddy
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Epistemically blameworthy belief [PDF]
AbstractWhen subjects violate epistemic standards or norms, we sometimes judge them blameworthy rather than blameless. For instance, we might judge a subject blameworthy for dogmatically continuing to believe a claim even after receiving evidence which undermines it.
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Free Will as An Epistemically Innocent False Belief
In this paper I aim to establish that our belief in free will is epistemically innocent. Many contemporary accounts that deal with the potential “illusion” of freedom seek to describe the pragmatic benefits of belief in free will, such as how it facilitates or grounds our notions of moral responsibility or basic desert. While these proposals have their
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