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Chapter 9 discusses two strategies for reducing credence to belief. One grounds credence in the transition of belief, the other grounds credence in the content of belief. Since the former elides the important distinction between being in a state and changing a state, the view is rejected.
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Chapter 9 discusses two strategies for reducing credence to belief. One grounds credence in the transition of belief, the other grounds credence in the content of belief. Since the former elides the important distinction between being in a state and changing a state, the view is rejected.
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Student Motivation and Epistemological Beliefs
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1999AbstractStudents' 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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Epistemology and Belief Change
2001Abstract 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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Interviews Regarding Epistemological Beliefs
2021To 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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The Epistemology of Religious Belief
2004A 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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Epistemological Beliefs in Introductory Physics
Cognition and Instruction, 1994Students' 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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The epistemology of memory beliefs
2018Most 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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Teacher's Ontological and Epistemological Beliefs
2020This 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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Epistemology and the Ethics of Belief
1996Abstract 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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Suspension of Belief and Epistemologies of Science
International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2015Epistemological disputes in the philosophy of science often focus on the question of how restrained or expansive one should be in interpreting our best scientific theories and models. For example, some empiricist philosophers countenance only belief in their observable content, while realists of different sorts extend belief (in incompatible ways ...
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