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Rape Culture and Epistemology [PDF]
We consider the complex interactions between rape culture and epistemology. A central case study is the consideration of a deferential attitude about the epistemology of sexual assault testimony.
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Stigmergic epistemology, stigmergic cognition [PDF]
To know is to cognize, to cognize is to be a culturally bounded, rationality-bounded and environmentally located agent. Knowledge and cognition are thus dual aspects of human sociality.
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Universe creation on a computer [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of the epistemology and metaphysics of universe creation on a computer.
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Popper's epistemology versus Popper's politics: A libertarian viewpoint [PDF]
What is my thesis? It is not that radical experimentation by the state, rather than liberal democracy, is more in accord with the spirit and logic of Popper’s ‘revolutionary’ epistemology.
Lester, J. C.
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Towards a quantum evolutionary scheme: violating Bell's inequalities in language [PDF]
We show the presence of genuine quantum structures in human language. The neo-Darwinian evolutionary scheme is founded on a probability structure that satisfies the Kolmogorovian axioms, and as a consequence cannot incorporate quantum-like evolutionary change.
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Does epistemology matter for educational practice? [PDF]
Lankshear, Peters & Knobel (2000) suggest that 'The digital age is throwing many of our educational practices and emphases and their underlying epistemological assumptions, beliefs, concepts and substantive theories into doubt'. In particular, because of
Aczel, James
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Reinventing College Physics for Biologists: Explicating an epistemological curriculum [PDF]
The University of Maryland Physics Education Research Group (UMd-PERG) carried out a five-year research project to rethink, observe, and reform introductory algebra-based (college) physics. This class is one of the Maryland Physics Department's large service courses, serving primarily life-science majors.
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Modals and Modal Epistemology [PDF]
I distinguish (§1) two projects in modal epistemology—one about how we come to know modal truths, and one about why we have the ability so to come to know.
Ichikawa, Jonathan
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Beyond epistemological deficits: Incorporating flexible epistemological views into fine-grained cognitive dynamics [PDF]
Researchers have argued against deficit-based explanations of students' troubles with mathematical sense-making, pointing instead to factors such as epistemology: students' beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning can hinder them from activating and integrating productive knowledge they have. But such explanations run the risk of substituting
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The Epistemology of Modality [PDF]
This article surveys recent developments in the epistemology of ...
Strohminger, Margot, Yli-Vakkuri, Juhani
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