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The human foundations of anatomy at The University of Sydney: One hundred and one years of body procurement

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Body procurement at The University of Sydney has a long history. Anatomy legislation (1881 Anatomy Act) modeled on the British Anatomy Act 1832 legalized procurement of unclaimed bodies from public institutions for anatomical dissection at licensed Schools of Anatomy, effectively conferring the University of Sydney an exclusive license until ...
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
wiley   +1 more source

Justification for knowing in a digitalised landscape

Journal of Digital Social Research
Epistemic beliefs are described as the way individuals regard the nature of knowledge and knowing. The nature of knowledge can be explored as dimensions describing the certainty and the structure of knowledge, whereas the nature of knowing can be ...
Tore Ståhl
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Epistemic normativity and the justification-excuse distinction [PDF]

Synthese, 2016
The paper critically examines recent work on justifications and excuses in epistemology. I start with a discussion of Gerken’s (Synthese 178: 529–547, 2011) claim that the “excuse maneuver” is ad hoc. Recent work from Timothy Williamson (in: Dorsch and Dutant, The new evil demon, OUP, Oxford, forthcoming) and Clayton Littlejohn (in: Dorsch and Dutant ...
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Cross‐disciplinary integration: Information practices and a role for information scholars. An annual review of information science and technology paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Cross‐disciplinary research is a priority for many academic institutions, with a growing body of scholarship dedicated to studying the central practice of cross‐disciplinarity: integration, or the synthesis of knowledge, information, and data across disciplines and domains.
Ciara Zogheib
wiley   +1 more source

Justification and Argumentation

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2014
In her paper “Argumentation theory and the conception of epistemic justification”, Lilian Bermejo-Luque presents a critique of deductivism in argumentation theory, as well as her own concept of epistemic justification inspired by the views of Stephen ...
Szymanek Krzysztof
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A Model Proposal to Address Relationships Between Epistemic Practices and Socioscientific Issues in Science Education

Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências, 2021
In this paper, we present a model that relates epistemic practices and socio-scientific issues (SSI) in science education. In order to develop it, we establish interweavings between norms, practices, epistemic objectives, epistemic cognition, informal ...
Tatiana Costa Ramos, Paula Cristina Cardoso Mendonça   +1 more
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Externalism, skepticism and epistemic luck [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2011
This paper deals with the concept of epistemic luck and its place within wider philosophical debates on knowledge and skepticism. Philosophers involved in these debates share an intuition that knowledge excludes luck.
Lazović Živan
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Exposing the work of the market through the case of Alternative Provision for English school students

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Pupils in England who, for some reason, are not able to attend school often find themselves in Alternative Provision (AP). These are special arrangements designed to address their specific needs and help them return to mainstream schooling.
Nick Pratt, Elizabeth J. Done, Sam Morahan   +2 more
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'Apparently' in an English-Swedish Cross-linguistic Perspective

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies
Evidential markers have the function of indicating the source of information or evidence on which a statement is based. The aim of the present paper is to identify and disentangle the different evidential and epistemic meanings of the evidential adverb ...
Karin Aijmer
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