Obligation to Judge or Judging Obligations: The Integration of Philosophy and Science in Francophone Philosophy of Science [PDF]
, 2019 The aim of this chapter is to show how Francophone PS, or what is called French (historical) epistemology, embodies this interconnectedness. Moreover, a novel approach to what constitutes French epistemology will be developed here, going beyond a purely ...
Simons, Massimiliano
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The impact of epistemology on learning: A case study from introductory physics [PDF]
, 2004 We discuss a case study of the influence of epistemology on learning for a student in an introductory college physics course. An analysis of videotaped class work, written work, and interviews indicates that many of the student's difficulties were epistemological in nature.
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Moderate Modal Skepticism [PDF]
, 2018 This paper examines "moderate modal skepticism", a form of skepticism about metaphysical modality defended by Peter van Inwagen in order to blunt the force of certain modal arguments in the philosophy of religion.
Strohminger, Margot, Yli-Vakkuri, Juhani
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Understanding students' difficulties in terms of coupled epistemological and affective dynamics [PDF]
, 2010 An established body of literature shows that a student's affect can be linked to her epistemological stance [1]. In this literature, the epistemology is generally taken as a belief or stance toward a discipline, and the affective stance applies broadly to a discipline or classroom culture.
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The Epistemology of “Epistemology Naturalized” [PDF]
, 1999 Quine's “Epistemology Naturalized” has become part of the canon in epistemology and excited a widespread revival of interest in naturalism. Yet the status accorded the essay is ironic, since both friends and foes of philosophical naturalism deny that ...
Roth, Paul
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Agapeic Theism: Personifying Evidence and Moral Struggle [PDF]
, 2010 The epistemology of monotheism offered by philosophers has given inadequate attention to the kind of foundational evidence to be expected of a personal God whose moral character is ’agapeic’, or perfectly loving, toward all other agents.
Moser, Paul K.
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Feminist science and epistemologies: Key issues central to GENNOVATE's research program [PDF]
, 2020 This methodological brief offers a window into GENNOVATE’s innovative collaborative research initiative to promote gender equality in agricultural and natural resource management. It addresses questions such as 1) Why is it important to distinguish among
Feldman, Shelley
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Beyond deficit-based models of learners' cognition: Interpreting engineering students' difficulties with sense-making in terms of fine-grained epistemological and conceptual dynamics [PDF]
International Journal of Science Education, 33(18), pp. 2463-2488,
2011, 2010 Researchers have argued against deficit-based explanations of students' troubles with mathematical sense-making, pointing instead to factors such as epistemology: students' beliefs about knowledge and learning can hinder them from activating and integrating productive knowledge they have.
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Situated Cameras, Situated Knowledges: Towards an Egocentric Epistemology for Computer Vision [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 In her influential 1988 paper, Situated Knowledges, Donna Haraway uses vision and perspective as a metaphor to discuss scientific knowledge. Today, egocentric computer vision discusses many of the same issues, except in a literal vision context. In this short position paper, we collapse that metaphor, and explore the interactions between feminist ...
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, 2019 This article argues that there can be epistemic dilemmas: situations in which one faces conflicting epistemic requirements with the result that whatever one does, one is doomed to do wrong from the epistemic point of view.
Hughes, Nick
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