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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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Epistemic Closure in Folk Epistemology [PDF]
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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THE ROLE OF EPISTEMIC BELIEFS AND EPISTEMIC EMOTIONS IN ONLINE LEARNING
Objectives. The aimed objectives of this study are 1) to determine which factors of epistemic beliefs are significant in an online course, 2) to determine if positive or negative epistemic emotions are significant in an online course, and 3) to identify ...
Diego Oswaldo CAMACHO VEGA
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In Defense of the Epistemic Imperative [PDF]
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]
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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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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Logics of Temporal-Epistemic Actions [PDF]
We present Dynamic Epistemic Temporal Logic, a framework for reasoning about operations on multi-agent Kripke models that contain a designated temporal relation.
Renne, Bryan, Sack, Joshua, Yap, Audrey
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Ageism is a social issue of growing concern; ageist beliefs can shape the individual and collective experience of aging. The present study aimed to explore positive and negative ageism in young adults (YA) (18-30 years) and adults (AD) (31-60 years) and
Alice Fiorini Bincoletto +3 more
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Riggs on strong justification [PDF]
In 'The Weakness of Strong Justification' Wayne Riggs claims that the requirement that justified beliefs be truth conducive (likely to be true) is not always compatible with the requirement that they be epistemically responsible (arrived at in an ...
Bonjour L. +3 more
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Epistemic beliefs and internet reliance – is algorithmic authority part of the picture?
The internet and search engines dominate within people’s information acquisition, especially among the younger generations. Given this trend, this study aims to explore if information and communication technology (ICT) practices, internet reliance and ...
T. Ståhl, Eero Sormunen, M. Mäkinen
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