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Rape Culture and Epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
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.
Crewe, Bianca   +1 more
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Stigmergic epistemology, stigmergic cognition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
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.
Baas   +46 more
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Universe creation on a computer [PDF]

open access: yesStud.Hist.Philos.Mod.Phys.36:591-625,2005, 2005
The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of the epistemology and metaphysics of universe creation on a computer.
arxiv   +1 more source

Popper's epistemology versus Popper's politics: A libertarian viewpoint [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
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]

open access: yesIn N. Gontier, J. P. Van Bendegem and D. Aerts (Eds.), Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture. Dordrecht: Springer (2005)., 2004
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.
arxiv   +1 more source

Does epistemology matter for educational practice? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
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]

open access: yesAm. J. Phys., 77, 629-642 (2009), 2008
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.
arxiv   +1 more source

Modals and Modal Epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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]

open access: yesarXiv, 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 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]

open access: yes, 2017
This article surveys recent developments in the epistemology of ...
Strohminger, Margot, Yli-Vakkuri, Juhani
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