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Epistemic justification of democracy

Theoria, Beograd, 2016
This paper aims to offer epistemic justification of democracy in addition to standard, purely procedural justification. First, we present a cognitive model of collective decision making and point out its advantages in comparison to standard statistical models. The logic underlying the improvement of group, or in our case democratic decision-
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Epistemological approaches and the ontological resolution in educational policy

Revista de estudios teóricos y epistemológicos en política educativa, 2016
The article proposes a way to address epistemological issues in education policy research through an epistemological script that describes the conditions under which epistemic questions in the context of educational policy make sense.
Sebastián Donoso-Díaz , Jorge Alarcón-Leiva   +1 more
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Some remarks against non-epistemic accounts of immediate premises in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics

Revista de Filosofia Antiga, 2023
Most interpretations of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics believe that the term ‘ameson’ is used to describe the principles or foundations of a given system of justification or explanation as epistemically prior to or more fundamental than the other ...
Breno Zuppolini
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On justifications and excuses [PDF]

, 2017
The New Evil Demon problem has been hotly debated since the case was introduced in the early 1980’s (e.g. Lehrer and Cohen 1983; Cohen 1984), and there seems to be recent increased interest in the topic.
Madison, B. J. C.
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Whither Evidentialist Reliabilism? [PDF]

, 2018
Evidentialism and Reliabilism are two of the main contemporary theories of epistemic justification. Some authors have thought that the theories are not incompatible with each other, and that a hybrid theory which incorporates elements of both should be ...
A Goldman, A Goldman, D Albert, D Christensen, E Conee, E Conee, E Conee, E Sober, E Sosa, J Comesaña, J Comesaña, J Comesaña, J Comesaña, J Comesaña, J Comesaña, J Comesaña, J Comesaña, J Comesaña, J Dunn, J Fantl, J Ismael, K McCain, L Bonjour, M Titelbaum, N Goodman, R Carnap, S Cohen, S Cohen, S Cohen, T Williamson, T Williamson, W Alston, WH Tang, WH Tang   +33 more
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Agripa’s problem [PDF]

Ideas y Valores, 2005
Agrippa’s Problem: The purpose of this paper is to present the triple problem (trilemma) of Agrippa that questions the possibility of reaching an epistemological justification of empirical knowledge.
Mauricio Zuluaga
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Extended Cognitive System and Epistemic Subject

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2015
The concept of an extended cognitive system is central to contemporary studies of cognition. In the paper I analyze the place of the epistemic subject within the extended cognitive system. Is it extended as well? In answering this question I focus on the
Trybulec Barbara
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Explicit Evidence Systems with Common Knowledge

, 2010
Justification logics are epistemic logics that explicitly include justifications for the agents' knowledge. We develop a multi-agent justification logic with evidence terms for individual agents as well as for common knowledge.
Alberucci L., Antonakos E., Artemov S. N., Artemov S. N., Artemov S. N., Artemov S. N., Artemov S. N., Blass A., Brünnler K., Brünnler K., Bucheli S., Bucheli S., Fagin R., Fitting M., Fitting M., Jäger G., Kuznets R., McCarthy J., Mkrtychev A., Nonaka I., Plaza J., Renne B., Renne B., Roman Kuznets, Samuel Bucheli, Thomas Studer, Yavorskaya (Sidon) T.   +26 more
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Competent Perspectives and the New Evil Demon Problem [PDF]

I extend my direct virtue epistemology to explain how a knowledge-first framework can account for two kinds of positive epistemic standing, one tracked by externalists, who claim that the virtuous duplicate lacks justification, the other tracked by ...
Miracchi, Lisa
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In Defence of Epistemic Relativism: The Concept of Truth in Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money [PDF]

, 2015
As one of the first modern philosophers, Georg Simmel systematically developed a “relativistic world view” (Simmel 2004, VI). In this paper I attempt to examine Simmel’s relativistic answer to the question of truth.
Steizinger, Johannes
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