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Humility and constraints on O-language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In "Ramseyan Humility," David Lewis argues that we cannot know what the fundamental properties in our world are. His arguments invoke the possibility of permutations and replacements of fundamental properties.
Leuenberger, S.
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How a Humbler Science Becomes a Better Science

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Giving humility a key role in scientific practice and communication would improve its objective social function—that is, the production of knowledge about our world and its application to the improvement of the human condition—and its public acceptance ...
Sara Lumbreras   +2 more
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SHOULD WE? EXPLORING CHANGE AGENTS’ CONCEPTIONS OF EPISTEMIC HUMILITY [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This work explores how those engaged in innovation and advancing change consider their own ethical frameworks when they operate under uncertainty. Open-mindedness and critical self-reflection about the limits of one’s knowledge, contained in the concept
Troop, Michael
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Partisanship, Humility, and Epistemic Polarization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Much of the literature from political psychology has focused on the negative traits that are positively associated with affective polarization—e.g., animus, arrogance, distrust, hostility, and outrage.
Leary, Mark   +4 more
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Intra-Organizational Humility: A Core Competency in New Century’s Organization Leadership [PDF]

open access: yesمدیریت دولتی, 2018
Objective:Humility is one of the fundamental virtues mentioned in most philosophical, religious, and, scientific texts. Recently, as the base of virtue, it has also gained a special place in organizational and management studies.
Behzad Mohammadian   +3 more
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Plantinga and the Great Pumpkin Revisited from the Perspective of Epistemology of Disagreement [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī
The epistemic legitimacy of religious belief, as defended within the framework of Reformed Epistemology (RE), has been the subject of sustained scrutiny since Alvin Plantinga introduced the notion of a sensus divinitatis as a properly basic source of ...
Ghazaleh Hojjati
doaj   +1 more source

Anti-Scepticism and Epistemic Humility in Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy of Science

open access: yesTransversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 2017
Duhem’s philosophy of science is difficult to classify according to more contemporary categories like instrumentalism and realism. On the one hand, he presents an account of scientific methodology which renders theories as mere instruments.
Marie Gueguen, Stathis Psillos
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Escape from Willful Hermeneutical Ignorance

open access: yesJournal of Extreme Anthropology
This article analyzes Ulf Stark’s children’s book The Runaways as a narrative of age-based epistemic marginalization. Drawing on feminist epistemology, the author identifies ageism as an epistemic problem with profound ethical implications. The analysis
Cathrine Grimsgaard
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The Negative Aha-Moment, or: Anticipating the Need for Dialogical Tolerance

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Kippbild hermeneutics, developed on the basis of Wittgenstein’s model of Kippbilder, can be understood as a specific postmodern method of coping with (religious) conflicts by relativizing their differences as different ways as seeing as.
Luca Di Blasi
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Writing Ourselves Otherwise: Representation, Specularity, and Epistemic Humility

open access: yesKrisis
Sylvia Wynter seeks nothing less than a redescription of the human, an ecumenical self-representation that would overcome the violent exclusions of coloniality and overturn the reign of Man.
Christopher Griffin
doaj   +1 more source

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