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The Puzzle of Humility and Disparity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Suppose that you are engaging with someone who is your oppressor, or someone who espouses a heinous view like Nazism or a ridiculous view like flat-earthism.
Baehr, Jason   +3 more
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Epistemic Emotions and Epistemic Cognition Predict Critical Thinking About Socio-Scientific Issues [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers 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, we examined the role of epistemic emotions in mediating the effects of epistemic cognition on ...
Krista R. Muis   +3 more
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Robust Modeling of Epistemic Mental States

open access: yes, 2020
This work identifies and advances some research challenges in the analysis of facial features and their temporal dynamics with epistemic mental states in dyadic conversations.
Anam, ASM Iftekhar   +2 more
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Consciousness and Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter focuses on the relationship between consciousness and knowledge, and in particular on the role perceptual consciousness might play in justifying beliefs about the external world.
Brogaard, Berit, Chudnoff, Elijah
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Emotions as pragmatic and epistemic actions [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
This paper explores the idea that emotions in social contexts and their intentionality may be conceived of as pragmatic or epistemic actions. That is, emotions are often aimed at achieving certain goals within a social context, so that they resemble pragmatic actions; and in other cases emotions can be plausibly construed as acts of probing the social ...
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A Fitting Definition of Epistemic Emotions

open access: yesThe Philosophical Quarterly, 2023
AbstractPhilosophers and psychologists sometimes categorize emotions like surprise and curiosity as specifically epistemic. Is there some reasonably unified and interesting class of emotions here? If so, what unifies it? This paper proposes and defends an evaluative account of epistemic emotions: What it is to be an epistemic emotion is to have ...
Michael Deigan   +1 more
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Theories of understanding others: the need for a new account and the guiding role of the person model theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
What would be an adequate theory of social understanding? In the last decade, the philosophical debate has focused on Theory Theory, Simulation Theory and Interaction Theory as the three possible candidates. In the following, we look carefully at each of
Coninx, Sabrina, Newen, Albert
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Epistemic emotions in prosecutorial decision making

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, 2023
AbstractThe article examines epistemic emotions as part of the emotive‐cognitive processes of prosecutors’ knowledge seeking and decision making in preliminary investigation and court proceedings. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and shadowing of prosecutors in Sweden, we show how emotions motivate and orient prosecutors’ inquiries and ...
Törnqvist, Nina, Wettergren, Åsa
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Anger, Affective Injustice, and Emotion Regulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Victims of oppression are often called to let go of their anger in order to facilitate better discussion to bring about the end of their oppression. According to Amia Srinivasan, this constitutes an affective injustice.
Archer, Alfred, Mills, Georgina
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When Artists Fall: Honoring and Admiring the Immoral [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Is it appropriate to honor artists who have created great works but who have also acted immorally? In this article, after arguing that honoring involves identifying a person as someone we ought to admire, we present three moral reasons against honoring ...
Archer, Alfred, Matheson, Benjamin
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