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Consciousness and Knowledge [PDF]
This chapter focuses on the relationship between consciousness and knowledge, and in particular on the role perceptual consciousness might play in justifying beliefs about the external world.
Brogaard, Berit, Chudnoff, Elijah
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The Epistemic Virtues of a Closed Mind: Effective Science Reporting in the Golden Age of the Con
A financial confidence game (or “con”) aims to separate you from your money. An epistemic con aims to influence social policy by recruiting you to spread doubt and falsehood about well-established claims.
Michael A. Bishop, J. D. Trout
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A Virtue-based and Comparative Reading of Ibn Sina and Mula Sadra’s Epistemological Theory [PDF]
Virtue-based epistemological theories are a branch of externalist epistemology. These theories introduced by Alvin Plantinga, Ernest Sosa, Linda Zagzebski are among these theories.
Akram Askarzadeh Mazraeh
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Insight often strikes us blind; when we aren’t expecting it, we suddenly see a connection that previously eluded us—a kind of ‘Aha!’ experience. People with a propensity to such experiences are regarded as insightful, and insightfulness is a paradigmatic
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Epistemic Virtue and Acceptance in Legal Fact-Finding
: The purpose of this paper is to outline the way in which an epistemic virtue approach can be used to address epistemological issues in law. My claim is that responsibilism is the right kind of approach.
Pedro Humberto Haddad Bernat
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This paper proposes a normative taxonomy by which universities can express the extent to which they meet five core epistemic responsibilities. Epistemic responsibilities are responsibilities that have to do with the attainment of knowledge and ...
Rik Peels +3 more
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Why We Should Be Curious about Each Other
Is curiosity a virtue or a vice? Curiosity, as a disposition to attain new, worthwhile information, can manifest as an epistemic virtue. When the disposition to attain new information is not manifested virtuously, this is either because the agent lacks ...
Lisa Bortolotti, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies
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Epistemic Virtue from the Viewpoints of Mulla Sadra and Zagzebski [PDF]
This paper compares epistemic virtue from the viewpoints of Zagzebski and Mulla Sadra, aiming to determine the extent to which their viewpoints on epistemic virtue are similar.
Zahra Khazaei
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Citizenry incompetence and the epistemic structure of society
The epistemic structure of society, with its division of epistemic and cognitive labour, can help us deal with the citizenry incompetence threat that many contemporary conceptions of democracy suffer as long as a certain intellectual character is ...
Leandro De Brasi
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Intellectual Humility and the Curse of Knowledge [PDF]
This chapter explores an unappreciated psychological dimension of intellectual humility. In particular, I argue there is a plausible connection between intellectual humility and epistemic egocentrism. Epistemic egocentrism is a well-known cognitive bias –
Hannon, Michael
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