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The COVID-19 pandemic brought immense challenges to global society. The entire social and work life had to be reorganized to accommodate for the restrictions imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19.
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RECENT WORK IN THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF UNDERSTANDING
The philosophical interest in the nature, value, and varieties of human understanding has swelled in recent years. This article will provide an overview of new research in the epistemology of understanding, with a particular focus on the following ...
Hannon
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Comparison and analysis of thematic trends in library and information science research at the national and international levels [PDF]
IntroductionOne of the important aspects of scientific research that can provide the basis for scientific growth and development is their thematic content. Considering the importance of paying attention to the experiences of advanced countries in problem-
farzaneh ghanadinezhad+2 more
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This chapter presents Epicurus’s theory of knowledge as a response to the epistemological pessimism of Democritus. The first section discusses the three “criteria of truth”—sense impressions, preconceptions, and the feelings of pleasure and pain; and ...
Nadine Schuurman
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Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics
In this article I take on the question of how the exclusion of Black American women from physics impacts physics epistemologies, and I highlight the dynamic relationship between this exclusion and the struggle for women to reconcile “Black woman” with ...
C. Prescod-Weinstein
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Time-Slice Rationality and Self-Locating Belief [PDF]
The epistemology of self-locating belief concerns itself with how rational agents ought to respond to certain kinds of indexical information. I argue that those who endorse the thesis of Time-Slice Rationality ought to endorse a particular view about the
Builes, David
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Explainable Deep Learning Models in Medical Image Analysis
Deep learning methods have been very effective for a variety of medical diagnostic tasks and have even outperformed human experts on some of those. However, the black-box nature of the algorithms has restricted their clinical use.
Amitojdeep Singh+2 more
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Educating for Intellectual Virtue: a critique from action guidance [PDF]
Virtue epistemology is among the dominant influences in mainstream epistemology today. An important commitment of one strand of virtue epistemology – responsibilist virtue epistemology (e.g., Montmarquet 1993; Zagzebski 1996; Battaly 2006; Baehr 2011 ...
Carter, J. Adam+2 more
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Epistemology Personalized [PDF]
Recent epistemology has focused almost exclusively on propositional knowledge. This paper considers an underexplored area of epistemology, namely knowledge of persons: if propositional knowledge is a state of mind, consisting in a subject's attitude to a
Benton, Matthew A.
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Lateral reading and monetary incentives to spot disinformation about science
Disinformation about science can impose enormous economic and public health burdens. A recently proposed strategy to help online users recognise false content is to follow the techniques of professional fact checkers, such as looking for information on ...
Folco Panizza+5 more
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