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Psychological Epistemology: Epistemological Psychology

Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 2013
In his 2010 book Being Human: Human Being, Rue Cromwell developed some key ideas for reforming psychology. These include resolving the conundrum of subject, object, and consciousness in science; sorting through the tangles of meaning in superficially similar but fundamentally different epistemologies; and reversing conflation of cultural, social, and ...
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Feminist epistemology as social epistemology

Social Epistemology, 2002
More than one philosopher has expressed puzzlement at the very idea of feminist epistemology. Metaphysics and epistemology, sometimes called the ‘core’ areas of philosophy, are supposed to be immune to questions of value and justice. Nevertheless, many philosophers have raised epistemological questions starting from feminist-motivated moral and ...
Heidi E. Grasswick, Mark Owen Webb
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Information-based epistemology, ecological epistemology and epistemology naturalized

Synthese, 1987
Only a very short time after the formal birth of information theory in 1948 (Wiener, Shannon) its potential value in psychology began to be realized (Miller and Frick, 1949). Quine's influential suggestion (1968) that epistemology be naturalized, i.e., be viewed as a branch of psychology, might have been expected to bring information theory into ...
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Social Epistemology

2015
Social epistemology is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of social practices and social factors. Social epistemologists seek to examine social practices and social factors from an epistemic point of view, as aids or impediments to the pursuit of knowledge.
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Plato’s Epistemology

2009
This chapter examines Plato’s views on knowledge. The constant themes in his dialogues are as follows. The first is that knowledge is systematic. Over specific areas, such as mathematics and morality, and even conceivably for reality as a whole, items of knowledge are systematically interconnected, and it is the task of inquiry in those areas to reveal
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Normative epistemology and naturalized epistemology∗

Inquiry, 1988
A number of philosophers have argued that a naturalized epistemology cannot be normative, and thus that the norms that govern science cannot themselves be established empirically. Three arguments for this conclusion are here developed and then responded to on behalf of naturalized epistemology. The response is developed in three stages.
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COMMUNICATIONAL EPISTEMOLOGY (III)

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1961
3.1 Logical limitations. The completeness and closedness of a theory (or interpretation, thinking pattern, etc.) give a natural boundary to the theory. Completeness and closedness are defined as follows:A theory T is complete if and only if every sentence constructed with the symbolism of T according to the rules for handling it or its negation is in T.
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Epistemology

2023
Abstract Chapter 5 explains how human knowledge is possible according to Ockham in a world exclusively made up of individuals. For this, it first describes Ockham’s theory of cognitive acts: intuitive cognitions, abstractive cognitions, connotative conceptual acts (including basic relational concepts), and judgements.
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Symposium: Feminist Epistemology: FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGY*

Metaphilosophy, 1995
L'A. defend la legitimite et la necessite d'une epistemologie feministe fondee sur quatre themes: 1) une conception non-individualiste de la connaissance, 2) une attention a la diversite, 3) une critique de l'objectivite comme but de la connaissance scientifique, 4) une definition normative de la connaissance.
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Medical epistemology

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2017
Henk, Ten Have, Bert, Gordijn
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