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Extended cognition and robust virtue epistemology: response to Vaesen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In a recent exchange, Vaesen (Synthese 181: 515–529, 2011; Erkenntnis 78:963–970, 2013) and Kelp (Erkenntnis 78:245–252, 2013a) have argued over whether cases of extended cognition pose (part of) a problem for robust virtue epistemology.
Kelp, Christoph
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Epistemological Consequences of the Incompleteness Theorems [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2016
After highlighting the cases in which the semantics of a language cannot be mechanically reproduced (in which case it is called inherent), the main epistemological consequences of the first incompleteness Theorem for the two fundamental arithmetical theories are shown: the non-mechanizability for the truths of the first-order arithmetic and the ...
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The Evil Demon Inside [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper examines how new evil demon problems could arise for our access to the internal world of our own minds. I start by arguing that the internalist/externalist debate in epistemology has been widely misconstrued---we need to reconfigure the ...
Silins, Nicholas
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Metacognition as Evidence for Evidentialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Metacognition is the monitoring and controlling of cognitive processes. I examine the role of metacognition in ‘ordinary retrieval cases’, cases in which it is intuitive that via recollection the subject has a justified belief.
A Goldman   +47 more
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A Sceptical Look at “A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
It is an irony to attack a more sceptical epistemology than one's own in the name of scepticism and defend, instead, an epistemology that is positively illogical. And yet that is what Martin Gardner has done in his “A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper.
Lester, J. C.
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What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Science? On Ernst Mach’s Pragmatic Epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The paper aims to investigate some aspects of Ernst Mach’s epistemology in the light of the problem of human orientation in relation to the world (Weltorientierung), which is a main topic of Western philosophy since Kant. As will be argued, Mach has been
Gori, Pietro
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Semantic Epistemology Redux: Proof and Validity in Quantum Mechanics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Definitions I presented in a previous article as part of a semantic approach in epistemology assumed that the concept of derivability from standard logic held across all mathematical and scientific disciplines.
Cusmariu, Arnold
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Scepticism and the genealogy of knowledge: situating epistemology in time [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
My overarching purpose is to illustrate the philosophical fruitfulness of expanding epistemology not only laterally across the social space of other epistemic subjects, but at the same time vertically in the temporal dimension.
Fricker, Miranda
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Historical Epistemology Meets the Human Sciences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The paper addresses recent developments in historical epistemology, traces the main inspirational sources that feed this approach, and suggests a possible agenda for closer approximation between historical epistemology and the human sciences in studying ...
Balon, Jan, Dvořák, Tomáš
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