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The Trivial Argument for Epistemic Value Pluralism, or, How I Learned to Stop Caring about Truth

, 2009
Relativism offers a nifty way of accommodating most of our intuitions about epistemic modals, predicates of personal taste, colour expressions, future contingents, and conditionals.
Berit Brogaard, Brogaard, Berit
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The quantification and epistemology of medicines use and polypharmacy tested in an observational study

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Definitions of ‘medicines use’ and ‘polypharmacy’ may refer to all medicines, regular long‐term medicines or another subset. Valid definitions of medicines use should incorporate type of use (long term, short course and as needed [PRN]), changes in use (start, stop and dose change) and a description of temporal examination (cross‐sectional or ...
Lorna Pairman, Paul Chin, Matthew Doogue
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We ought to discuss the social construction of cadavers: Here's why and how

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Fatima Ehsan, Susan Lamb
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String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
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A Novel Hybrid Methodology for Loss of Containment Accident Risk Assessment of Chemical Storage Tank Based on RPN Considering the Expert Epistemic Uncertainty

Chemical Engineering Transactions
In the petrochemical industry, storage tank failures may lead to unfavorable consequences or even catastrophic events. The risk management of chemical tank farms must identify all possible failure modes and reduce the risk for critical failure modes ...
Hongrui Jiang, Long Ding, Jie Ji, Jiping Zhu   +3 more
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International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract With growing attention to student agency in academic and policy discourse, international education has become a prominent context for examining how students navigate new cultural, academic, linguistic and social environments. However, much of this discussion attributes student agency to the ‘international’ aspect, while overlooking the ...
Soyoung Lee
wiley   +1 more source

‘We Don't Have to Prove to People How We're Feeling’: Understanding the Role of Peer Support Groups in Countering Epistemic Injustices in Long COVID at a US Centre

Health Expectations
Background Long COVID, an infection‐associated chronic condition characterised by new or worsening signs or symptoms for more than 3 months after a SARS‐CoV‐2 infection, is a chronic debilitating illness which remains poorly understood.
Nandini Sarma, Sam Gage, Catherine L. Hough, Aluko A. Hope   +3 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

A Theory of Epistemic Risk [PDF]

, 2018
I propose a general alethic theory of epistemic risk according to which the riskiness of an agent's credence function encodes their relative sensitivity to different types of graded error.
Babic, Boris
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Measuring what matters: Evaluating the impact of curriculum decolonisation initiatives in UK business schools

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Curriculum decolonisation has become a prominent feature of equity agendas in UK higher education, yet there remains limited empirical and theoretical work on how such initiatives are evaluated, particularly within business schools. This paper presents one of the first multi‐institutional empirical studies examining how UK business schools ...
Sally Everett, Rachael Carden, Kenisha Linton   +2 more
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