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Epistemic Emotions and Epistemic Cognition Predict Critical Thinking About Socio-Scientific Issues
Frontiers in Education, 2021 When thinking critically about socio-scientific issues, individuals’ expectations about the nature of knowledge and knowing, as well as their emotions when these expectations are met or not, may play an important role in critical thinking. In this study,
Krista R. Muis +3 more
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Virtue Epistemologies and Epistemic Vice [PDF]
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2015 While virtue epistemologists agree that knowledge consists in having beliefs appropriately formed in accordance with epistemic virtue, they disagree regarding what constitutes an epistemic virtue.
Eric Kraemer
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A social solution to the puzzle of doxastic responsibility: a two-dimensional account of responsibility for belief [PDF]
, 2020 In virtue of what are we responsible for our beliefs? I argue that doxastic responsibility has a crucial social component: part of being responsible for our beliefs is being responsible to others.
Osborne, Robert Carry
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Belief and pluralistic ignorance
Filosofia Unisinos, 2020 Pluralistic ignorance is usually analyzed in terms of social norms. Recently, Bjerring, Hansen and Pedersen (2014) describe and define this phenomenon in terms of beliefs, actions and evidence.
Marco Antonio Joven Romero
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Pragmatic Encroachment: An Epistemic Explanation in favor of Religious Beliefs. [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2019 In this article, we address the role of pragmatic considerations in knowledge and, in particular, religious knowledge, as one of the challenging topics in epistemology and religious epistemology, and suggest a different model for the relation between ...
Ali Kalani Tehrani +1 more
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Student Attitudes Contribute to the Effectiveness of a Genomics CURE
Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2022 The Genomics Education Partnership (GEP) engages students in a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE). To better understand the student attributes that support success in this CURE, we asked students about their attitudes using previously ...
David Lopatto +97 more
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Belief as a non-epistemic adaptive benefit
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019 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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The importance of epistemic cognition in student-centred learning [PDF]
, 2004 To infer the sophistication of epistemic thinking in a sample of undergraduate students, 25 participants completed a free-response task in which they were asked to give reasons for their agreement or disagreement with a small number of beliefs about the ...
Maclellan, Effie, Soden, R.
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WHAT’S VOLUNTARY IN STANCE VOLUNTARISM?
Manuscrito, 2021 Stance voluntarism highlights the role of the will in epistemic agency, claiming that agents can control the epistemic stances they assume in forming beliefs.
BRUNO MALAVOLTA E SILVA
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Does Epistemic Humility Threaten Religious Beliefs? [PDF]
, 2018 In a fallen world fraught with evidence against religious beliefs, it is tempting to think that, on the assumption that those beliefs are true, the best way to protect them is to hold them dogmatically.
Dormandy, Katherine
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