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How Thought Experiments Increase Understanding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We might think that thought experiments are at their most powerful or most interesting when they produce new knowledge. This would be a mistake; thought experiments that seek understanding are just as powerful and interesting, and perhaps even more so. A
Stuart, Michael T.
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The Inquiring Mind: On Intellectual Virtues and Virtue Epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This is a book review of Jason Baehr's 'The Inquiring Mind: On Intellectual Virtues and Virtue Epistemology' (OUP)
Carter, J. Adam
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Women and care ethics during the COVID-19 pandemic: Who cares for the care-givers? [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
Caring is a general ethical responsibility that makes human existence worthwhile and fulfilling. Whenever society is distressed be it by a famine, war, poverty or a pandemic, the impact falls hard on women, children and people living with disability.
Elias Konyana
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Thinking Twice about Virtue and Vice: Philosophical Situationism and the Vicious Minds Hypothesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper provides an empirical defense of credit theories of knowing against Mark Alfano’s challenges to them based on his theses of inferential cognitive situationism and of epistemic situationism.
Axtell, Guy
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Delusion, Proper Function, and Justification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Among psychiatric conditions, delusions have received significant attention in the philosophical literature. This is partly due to the fact that many delusions are bizarre, and their contents interesting in and of themselves.
Crutchfield, Parker
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Letting reality bite [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Describes an experiment in teaching undergraduate epistemology, guided by Peirce’s pragmatic ...
Legg, Catherine
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