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Epistemology Without Intuition [PDF]
, 2018 From Plato to the present, intuition plays a central role in epistemology. My concern in this paper is with the nature and epistemic status of intuition. To that end, I will be reviewing both Bealer’s and Wittgenstein’s accounts of intuition.
Hamdo, Manhal
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From Ontology to Structured Applied Epistemology [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Developing and organizing new knowledge is a core activity for scholars. Recently, ontologies have been introduced as an approach for organizing knowledge. However, most ontologies do not readily support the development and organization of new knowledge. By comparison, to ontology, epistemology is the study of what can be known. Aspects of epistemology
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Elementary epistemological features of machine intelligence [PDF]
arXiv, 2008 Theoretical analysis of machine intelligence (MI) is useful for defining a common platform in both theoretical and applied artificial intelligence (AI). The goal of this paper is to set canonical definitions that can assist pragmatic research in both strong and weak AI.
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Epistemology as Engineering? [PDF]
, 2006 According to a common objection to epistemological naturalism, no empirical, scientific theory of knowledge can be normative in the way epistemological theories need to be. In response, such naturalists as W.V. Quine have claimed naturalized epistemology
Wrenn, Chase B.
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Knowledge: the safe-apt view [PDF]
, 2013 According to virtue epistemology, knowledge involves cognitive success that is due to cognitive competence. This paper explores the prospects of a virtue theory of knowledge that, so far, has no takers in the literature.
Kelp, Christoph
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Transhumanism and epistemology [PDF]
, 2009 The author analyzes the main epistemological orientations characterizing the transhumanist movement, by referring to the results of a recent internal survey.
Campa, Riccardo
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. This entry covers epistemology in two parts: one historical, one contemporary. The former provides a brief theological history of epistemology.
Jackson, Elizabeth
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Incorporating Affect in an Engineering Student's Epistemological Dynamics [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Conference for the Learning
Sciences 2010, 2010 Research has linked a student's affect to her epistemology (Boaler & Greeno, 2000), but those constructs often apply broadly to a discipline and/or classroom culture. Independently, an emerging line of research shows that a student in a given classroom and discipline can shift between multiple locally coherent epistemological stances (Hammer, Elby ...
arxiv
, 2020 This paper argues that we should assign certainty a central place in epistemology. While epistemic certainty played an important role in the history of epistemology, recent epistemology has tended to dismiss certainty as an unattainable ideal, focusing ...
Beddor, Bob
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