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Information-based epistemology, ecological epistemology and epistemology naturalized

Synthese, 1987
Only a very short time after the formal birth of information theory in 1948 (Wiener, Shannon) its potential value in psychology began to be realized (Miller and Frick, 1949). Quine's influential suggestion (1968) that epistemology be naturalized, i.e., be viewed as a branch of psychology, might have been expected to bring information theory into ...
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Feminist epistemology as social epistemology

Social Epistemology, 2002
More than one philosopher has expressed puzzlement at the very idea of feminist epistemology. Metaphysics and epistemology, sometimes called the ‘core’ areas of philosophy, are supposed to be immune to questions of value and justice. Nevertheless, many philosophers have raised epistemological questions starting from feminist-motivated moral and ...
Heidi E. Grasswick, Mark Owen Webb
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Normative epistemology and naturalized epistemology∗

Inquiry, 1988
A number of philosophers have argued that a naturalized epistemology cannot be normative, and thus that the norms that govern science cannot themselves be established empirically. Three arguments for this conclusion are here developed and then responded to on behalf of naturalized epistemology. The response is developed in three stages.
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The epistemological status of a naturalized epistemology

Inquiry, 1983
Philosophically inclined psychologists and psychologically inclined philosophers often hold that the substantive discoveries of psychology can provide an empirical foundation for epistemology. In this paper it is argued that the ambition to found epistemology empirically faces certain unnoticed difficulties.
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Psychological Epistemology: Epistemological Psychology

Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 2013
In his 2010 book Being Human: Human Being, Rue Cromwell developed some key ideas for reforming psychology. These include resolving the conundrum of subject, object, and consciousness in science; sorting through the tangles of meaning in superficially similar but fundamentally different epistemologies; and reversing conflation of cultural, social, and ...
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Epistemology

2014
The chapter analyses the main topics in contemporary epistemology.
AMORETTI, MARIA CRISTINA, A. Coliva
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Virtue Epistemology and Collective Epistemology

2018
This chapter introduces the reader to the nascent field of collective virtue epistemology. It begins by laying out what the major questions in the field and discusses some methodological issues that arise in the investigation of group epistemic virtues. It seeks to the survey of the handful of contributions to this field.
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Epistemology and logic [PDF]

Synthese, 1960
A. Church in his justified criticism 1) of A. Koyre’s analysis of antinomies without using the logistic method, and A. N. Prior in his rigorous treatment 2) of the Epimenides paradox, concur in stressing that the point in this paradox is not the supposed emergence of contradictory conclusions but the apparent possibility of settling an epistemological ...
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Epistemology

2023
This comprehensive Dictionary brings together an extensive range of definitive terms in ecological economics. Assembling contributions from distinguished scholars, it provides an intellectual map to this evolving subject ranging from the practical to the philosophical. © Brent M. Haddad and Barry D. Solomon 2023.
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The epistemology of belief

Synthese, 1983
By examining the general conditions in which a structure could come to represent another state of affairs, it is argued that beliefs, a special class of representations, have their contents limited by the sort of information the system in which they occur can pick up and process.
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