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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 ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Knowing, Thinking, and Learning

open access: yesJournal 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 ...
Srikanth Dandotkar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
core   +1 more source

Unravelling the interplay of primary school teachers’ topic-specific epistemic beliefs and their conceptions of inquiry-based learning in history and science

open access: yesFrontline Learning Research, 2021
Inquiry-based learning remains both an important goal and challenge for primary school teachers within and across different subjects, such as history and science.
Athina Koutsianou, Anastassios Emvalotis
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Epistemic Perceptualism, Skill, and the Regress Problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

Belief gambles in epistemic decision theory [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical 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.
openaire   +2 more sources

Conservation of epistemic responsibility by external epistemic in point of view of Ayatollah Javadi Amoli [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت 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 ...
zeinab askarian   +2 more
doaj  

Epistemic beliefs as a determinant in evidence-based practice in physiotherapy – a multi-country (Europe) cross-sectional online survey study [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Mechanisms of Epistemic Change—Under Which Circumstances Does Diverging Information Support Epistemic Development?

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Does Optimism, Epistemic Beliefs and Problem-Solving Skills Influence Learners’ Attainment in Accounting Concepts? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2021
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
doaj  

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