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Epistemological Anatomy: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Anatomical Knowledge
ABSTRACT Anatomy is often regarded as settled knowledge. Yet anatomical propositions differ enormously in their evidentiary foundations, while textbooks and atlases frequently present them with similar certainty. How, then, does an anatomical observation become anatomical knowledge? We introduce epistemological anatomy as a framework for the systematic
Marios Loukas +5 more
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Epistemic Goals of Scientific Inquiry: An Explanation Through Virtue Epistemology
The paper examines the integration of virtue epistemology into the philosophy of science, emphasizing its potential to deepen our understanding of scientific inquiry.
Mikhail Khort
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On the pragmatic and epistemic virtues of inference to the best explanation. [PDF]
Pettigrew R.
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Character education as curriculum‐making in the humanities: A scoping review
Abstract This scoping review examines how character education is conceptualised and enacted within humanities curricula across international contexts. While character education is widely promoted as supporting the development of ethical, civic and relational dispositions, its place within curriculum design remains contested, particularly in subjects ...
Jonathon Sargeant, Kylie Trask‐Kerr
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The Transcript of the 1986 Stanford Conversation records how Quine grapples with the inconsistencies he seeks and finds in his own views. Why was Quine so reluctant and ambivalent concerning propositional attitudes— “the mental”—including the ...
Andreas Follesdal
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¿Es relevante lo "dado" para la justificación?
My purpose in this essay is to bring to light the role played by experience in the justification process of empirical knowledge. Contemporary debate is dominated by two antagonistic sides: on one extreme we have the foundationalist empiricists for whom ...
Jorge Ornelas Bernal
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Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol +1 more
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The present paper aims to revisit the virtues and disadvantages of epistemic conservatism, which claims that it is rational to adhere to a belief until there is evidence to the contrary.
Rodrigo Laera
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ABSTRACT Post‐tensioned cross‐laminated timber (PT‐CLT) rocking walls offer a compelling seismic system combining self‐centering behavior with energy dissipation. However, progress in their performance assessment and design has been limited by the lack of a comprehensive parametric modeling tool, as exists for steel or reinforced concrete systems. This
Ghasem B. Shargh +3 more
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THE VIRTUE OF MAGNANIMITY IN THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE, DESCARTES AND NIETZSCHE: EPICTEMOLOGICAL ASPECT
The scope of the study is the virtue of magnanimity that reveals not only a moral but also an epistemological dimension in the context of the history of philosophy.
D. S. Popov
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