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Epistemic Sentimentalism and Epistemic Reason-Responsiveness [PDF]
Epistemic Sentimentalism is the view that emotional experiences such as fear and guilt are a source of immediate justification for evaluative beliefs. For example, guilt can sometimes immediately justify a subject’s belief that they have done something ...
Cowan, Robert
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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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Epistemic Emotions and Epistemic Cognition Predict Critical Thinking About Socio-Scientific Issues
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]
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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Belief and pluralistic ignorance
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]
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
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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A social solution to the puzzle of doxastic responsibility: a two-dimensional account of responsibility for belief [PDF]
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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Some Problems With Steadfast Strategies for Rational Disagreement [PDF]
Current responses to the question of how one should adjust one’s beliefs in response to peer disagreement have, in general, formed a spectrum at one end of which sit the so-called ‘conciliatory’ views and whose other end is occupied by the ‘steadfast ...
Vahid, Hamid
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Epistemic internalism and testimonial justification [PDF]
According to epistemic internalists, facts about justification supervene upon one's internal reasons for believing certain propositions. Epistemic externalists, on the other hand, deny this.
Egeland, Jonathan
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