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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Information science rests on a compact: its mediating signs maintain a traceable relation to what they describe. Large language models (LLMs) break it architecturally, generating discourse that is statistically plausible yet epistemically ungrounded, while standard metrics (precision, recall, relevance) cannot detect the rupture.
Martin Thellefsen, Alon Friedman
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Moral and Epistemic Virtues: A Thomistic and Analytical Perspective
Forum Philosophicum, 2010 The article elaborates on the concept of ethics, noting the contrasting definitions of morality virtue-based and rule-based ethics. It highlights the related distinction between virtue epistemology and rule epistemology, stating that the main difference lies in the appreciation of the ethics of belief by either discipline.
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Unity As An Epistemic Virtue [PDF]
Erkenntnis, 2017 It's widely supposed that unification is an epistemic virtue: the degree to which a theory is unified contributes to its overall confirmation. However, this supposition has consequences which haven't been noted, and which undermine the leading accounts of unification.
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Despite growing interest in the internationalisation of higher education, the experiences of international student parents, particularly international student mothers, remain largely marginalised in research and policy. This paper examines the emotional agency of international student mothers who leave their children behind in their home ...
Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan +2 more
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Addressing racialised awarding gap in higher education: Insights from personal tutors
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Situated within a wider cross‐institutional research project, this article provides an in‐depth case study of one higher education (HE) institution, focusing on how personal tutors make sense of racialised degree awarding disparities for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, how they perceive their responsibilities, the challenges and ...
Benjamin Ajibade +3 more
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On Epistemic Consequentialism and the Virtue Conflation Problem [PDF]
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2016 Addressing the ‘virtue conflation’ problem requires the preservation of intuitive distinctions between virtue types, that is, between intellectual and moral virtues. According to one influential attempt to avoid this problem proposed by Julia Driver (2003), moral virtues produce benefits to others—in particular, they promote the well-being of others ...
Carter, J. Adam, Church, Ian M.
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Epistemic Authority in Medical Artificial Intelligence: A Virtue Epistemological Analysis
Yixue yu zhexueMedical artificial intelligence has been deeply integrated into medical practice, which raises controversy about whether it should be regarded as an epistemic authority.
Xinxin LIU, Lingfeng LYU, Fei XU
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Sosa’s Responses to Dreaming Skepticism
Crítica, 2019 Ernest Sosa has proposed two different ways to respond to dreaming skepticism. In this paper I argue that Sosa's first response —which centers on holding that we have no beliefs in dreams— does not appear to be successful against (what we have called ...
Claudia Lorena García
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents findings from an Australian study investigating the practices of middle leaders responsible for facilitating school development. Despite middle leaders being increasingly recognised as essential in the development of teaching and learning in schools, middle leadership remains under‐researched and comparatively overlooked ...
Peter Grootenboer +3 more
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Histoire, Médecine et Santé, 2014 This paper aims at investigating anatomical modelling as a cultural practice. In early twentieth-century Vienna anatomists and artists produced a variety of models of the human body that had different functions, uses and meanings in changing historical ...
Birgit Nemec
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