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Barriers to cross-disciplinary knowledge flow: The case of medical education research

open access: yesPerspectives on Medical Education, 2021
Introduction The medical education research field operates at the crossroads of two distinct academic worlds: higher education and medicine. As such, this field provides a unique opportunity to explore new forms of cross-disciplinary knowledge exchange ...
Mathieu Albert   +3 more
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Impacts of a Digital Dialogue Game and Epistemic Beliefs on Argumentative Discourse and Willingness to Argue

open access: yesInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
The goal of this study was to explore how students debate with their peers within a designed context using a digital dialogue game, and whether their epistemic beliefs are significant to the outcomes.
Omid Noroozi   +2 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
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Peer Disagreement, Testimony, and Personal Justification [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2015
In this paper, I consider the problem of peer disagreement: What should one do in a case in which one who is an epistemic peer disagrees with one? One of the flaws with what has come to be known as the “equal weight view” is that it misconceives the ...
Nicholas D. Smith
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The procedural epistemic value of deliberation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Collective deliberation is fuelled by disagreements and its epistemic value depends, inter alia, on how the participants respond to each other in disagreements.
Fabienne Peter, Peter, Fabienne
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Algebra and Sequent Calculus for Epistemic Actions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
We introduce an algebraic approach to Dynamic Epistemic Logic. This approach has the advantage that: (i) its semantics is a transparent algebraic object with a minimal set of primitives from which most ingredients of Dynamic Epistemic Logic arise, (ii ...
Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh   +4 more
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La maturité épistémique dans les MOOC : le cas du MOOC « Pas à Pas » du projet européen ECO

open access: yesRevue Française des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication, 2017
Epistemic maturity - a reflexive and distanced posture on the learning processes - is a notion rarely tackled when dealing with MOOCs. Yet it is a major stake to evaluate the real contribution of this new generation of distance learning because it posits
Divina Frau-Meigs, Adeline Bossu
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On epistemic conceptions of meaning: use, meaning and normativity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Many philosophers hold that for an expression to possess meaning is for there to norms governing its use. By combining this with a further idea, namely that the relevant norms are epistemic, one arrives at an epistemic conception of meaning (EM). In this
Whiting, Daniel, Daniel Whiting
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Preferential Belief Change Using Generalized Epistemic Entrenchment [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
A sentence A is epistemically less entrenched in a belief state K than a sentence B if and only if a person in belief state K who is forced to give up either A or B will give up A and hold on to B.
Rott, Hans
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The importance of epistemic cognition in student-centred learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
To infer the sophistication of epistemic thinking in a sample of undergraduate students, 25 participants completed a free-response task in which they were asked to give reasons for their agreement or disagreement with a small number of beliefs about the ...
Maclellan, Effie, Soden, R.
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