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Culture as a Moderator of Epistemically Suspect Beliefs [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
A consistent finding reported in the literature is that epistemically suspect beliefs (e.g., paranormal beliefs) are less frequently endorsed by individuals with a greater tendency to think analytically. However, these results have been observed predominantly in Western participants.
Yoshimasa Majima   +3 more
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Measuring epistemic beliefs about grammar [PDF]

open access: yesL1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature, 2022
In current educational reform much attention is paid to the development of awareness, reflective thinking, and higher order thinking. In language education, the importance of reflectivity for stimulating linguistic awareness and higher order thinking has been emphasized.
Wijnands, Astrid   +2 more
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Evaluation of Epistemic Beliefs Self-Report Questionnaires in the Czech Middle School History Classroom

open access: yesPedagogika, 2023
Epistemic beliefs are gaining increasing importance in social science education in Czechia. Recent literature has demonstrated findings linking epistemic beliefs with various academic skills, including achievement and reading comprehension.
Jaroslav Říčan, Ondřej Pešout
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EFL Students’ Speaking Achievement And Its Relationship With Epistemic Beliefs

open access: yesIJET (Indonesian Journal of English Teaching), 2020
The purpose of the present research is to uncover relationship between English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students' speaking score achievement and their epistemic beliefs.
Ive Emaliana, Kholifatur Rohmah
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Researching epistemic beliefs in history education: A review

open access: yesHistorical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education, 2022
Departing from the pioneering work of VanSledright and Maggioni (2016), this article revisits questions about epistemic beliefs and the role these beliefs play in the teaching and learning of history. Eighteen recent studies on epistemic beliefs
Gerhard Stoel   +2 more
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Against Minimalist Responses to Moral Debunking Arguments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Moral debunking arguments are meant to show that, by realist lights, moral beliefs are not explained by moral facts, which in turn is meant to show that they lack some significant counterfactual connection to the moral facts (e.g., safety, sensitivity ...
Korman, Daniel Z., Locke, Dustin
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Sexual Orientation, Ideology, and Philosophical Method

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2020
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.
Andler Matthew
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Rethinking epistemic logic with belief bases [PDF]

open access: yesArtificial Intelligence, 2020
We introduce a new semantics for a logic of explicit and implicit beliefs based on the concept of multi-agent belief base. Differently from existing Kripke-style semantics for epistemic logic in which the notions of possible world and doxastic/epistemic alternative are primitive, in our semantics they are non-primitive but are defined from the concept ...
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Darwinism in metaethics: What if the universal acid cannot be contained? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The aim of this article is to explore the impact of Darwinism in metaethics and dispel some of the confusion surrounding it. While the prospects for a Darwinian metaethics appear to be improving, some underlying epistemological issues remain unclear.
Severini, Eleonora, Sterpetti, Fabio
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An Awareness Epistemic Framework for Belief, Argumentation and Their Dynamics [PDF]

open access: yesElectronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2021
In Proceedings TARK 2021, arXiv:2106.10886. The research activity of Antonio Yuste-Ginel has been partially funded by the predoctoral grant no. MECD-FPU 2016/04113 of Ministerio de Universidades (Spain)
Alfredo Burrieza, Antonio Yuste-Ginel
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