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knowledge among physicians: A questionnaire survey http://www.med-ed-online.org

open access: yes, 2007
Background: All sciences share a common underlying epistemological domain, which gives grounds to and characterizes their nature and actions. Insofar as physicians depend on scientific knowledge, it would be helpful to assess their knowledge regarding ...
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Toward cultural epidemiology : beyond epistemological hegemony

open access: yes, 2013
It is more than 10 years since the anthropologist DiGiacomo (1999) answered the question “Can there be a cultural epidemiology?” with disappointment, concluding ethnographic and epidemiological narratives are divergent not complementary. In the same year,
Mark Brough, Brough, Mark K.
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EPISTEMOLOGY EXTENDED [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Issues, 2014
AbstractA common presupposition in epistemology is that the processes contributing to the generation of knowledge do not extend beyond the knower's skin. This paper challenges this presupposition. I adduce a novel kind case that causes trouble for a number of even the most promising accounts of knowledge in current literature (virtue epistemological ...
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Epistemological risk aspects

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2016
The paper considers risk in the context of the main characteristics of non-classical epistemology. It states that non-classical epistemology is characterized by transformation, according to which the major priority of cognitive activity shifts the focus ...
Ardashkin I.B.   +3 more
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Epistemological obstacles on the concepts of limit and continuity in courses of differential calculus in engineering programs

open access: yesRevista Perspectivas, 2017
Many investigations have been carried out with the objective of identifying the difficulties that students have in the learning process of the different mathematical concepts.
Cesar Augusto Hernandez-Suarez   +2 more
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Epistemological Beliefs and Knowledge among Physicians: A Questionnaire Survey

open access: yes, 2002
Background: All sciences share a common underlying epistemological domain, which gives grounds to and characterizes their nature and actions. Insofar as physicians depend on scientific knowledge, it would be helpful to assess their knowledge regarding ...
Peralta MD, Carlos   +2 more
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Epistemological perspectives on ontology-based theories for conceptual modeling

open access: yes, 2008
Conceptual modeling is a core activity within information systems analysis and design. In response to continuous criticisms targeting the foundation of conceptual modeling, the notion of ontology as a theoretical reference has gained immense popularity ...
Recker, Jan C., Niehaves, Bjorn
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Judgmental perceptual knowledge and its factive grounds: a new interpretation and defense of epistemological disjunctivism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This thesis offers a fresh interpretation and defense of epistemological disjunctivism about perceptual knowledge. I adopt a multilevel approach according to which perceptual knowledge on one level can enjoy factive rational support provided by ...
Shaw, Kegan J.
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Extractivist Epistemologies

open access: yesTapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2022
This chapter develops an account and critique of extractivist epistemologies, which are generated by extractivist projects. It argues that certain metaphysical and epistemological ideas and practices emerge from extractivist projects, and these ideas and practices have influenced the development of Western epistemologies.
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'Before the dark of reason': some ethical and epistemological considerations on the otherness of children

open access: yes, 2001
This paper focuses on the 'otherness' of childhood. I argue that this otherness has to be acknowledged and respected within the various, welcome attempts in social science study, and society more widely, to somehow bring children into various practices ...
Jones, O., Jones, Owain, Jones, O
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