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The Epistemology of Religious Belief

2004
A religion proposes a diagnosis of, and a cure for, what it takes to be the deep and devastating disease that we all share. Religious traditions differ as their diagnoses and cures differ. Thus different accounts of what there is — an omnicompetent God and self-conscious substances made in God’s image; qualityless Brahman and nothing else; or co ...
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The epistemology of memory beliefs

2018
Most of our beliefs are memory beliefs. It is rather surprising, then, that the epistemology of memory has been relatively neglected until recently. This is because memory beliefs have been traditionally understood as stored information. According to the traditional view, beliefs are stored in our memory similar to the way books are stored in a library,
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Epistemology and Belief Change

2001
Abstract From a philosophical point of view. AI and computer science are rather sloppy when speaking of knowledge. What they mean by ‘knowledge base’, ‘knowledge system’, and ‘knowledge representation’ does not refer to what is commonly meant by ‘knowledge’. It is widely agreed that if we know rather than just believe that ϕ, then ϕ must
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Student Motivation and Epistemological Beliefs

New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1999
AbstractStudents' motivation to learn is related to their epistemological beliefs. Faculty can promote student motivation by designing learning activities that facilitate student development of more sophisticated epistemological beliefs.
Michael B. Paulsen, Kenneth A. Feldman
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Interviews Regarding Epistemological Beliefs

2021
To identify epistemological beliefs regarding mathematics, an interview study was conducted. The interviewees were selected to represent as broad a sample as possible, ranging from university students (pre-service teachers of mathematics) to in-service teachers, working mathematicians, and full professors (of mathematics and mathematics education).
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Epistemology and the Ethics of Belief

1996
Abstract The last three chapters have argued that there is no good reasons to doubt the possible historical truth and knowability of the incarnational narrative, but these arguments have been negative in character, with the aim of showing only that it is possible to have knowledge of such a narrative.
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Epistemological Beliefs in Introductory Physics

Cognition and Instruction, 1994
Students' beliefs about knowledge and learning in a domain may have a significant effect on how they approach the material and on what they learn. This article describes a study of such epistemological beliefs in the context of an introductory physics course. I interviewed 6 students, meeting several times with each over one semester.
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Teacher's Ontological and Epistemological Beliefs

2020
This chapter involves a discussion of a case study to explore teachers' beliefs on the nature of reality (ontology) and knowledge (epistemology) within an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program at the International School of Amsterdam. The study is positioned within the constructivist-interpretive paradigm and allows for the emergence of a ...
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Teachers' Ontological and Epistemological Beliefs

London International Conference on Education (LICE-2022) and World Congress on Special Needs Education (WCE-2022), 2016
This chapter documents a case study of the exploration of teachers' beliefs on the nature of reality (ontology) and knowledge (epistemology) within an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program at the International School of Amsterdam. The study is positioned within the constructivist-interpretive paradigm and, therefore, allows for the emergence
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A Sociocultural Exploration of Epistemological Beliefs

2008
Recent research points to the centrality of epistemological knowledge in subject-matter learning and reasoning. However, our understanding of factors that might influence epistemological development is still fairly limited. In this chapter, we synthesize results from a series of cross-sectional studies in order to consider sociocultural perspectives of
Iris Tabak, Michael Weinstock
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