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What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Science? On Ernst Mach’s Pragmatic Epistemology [PDF]
, 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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The Epistemology of Psychiatry
Revista Estudos do Século XX, 2018 Psychiatry (the old trade of ‘alienism’) is a new discipline. It was constructed during the 19th century under the aegis of medicine. Like all historical events, its foundation was assisted by contemporary assumptions, aspirations and a myth of origin. ‘Psychiatry’ presented itself as a branch of medicine seeking scientifically to explain the causes of
German E. Berrios, Ivana Marková
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study aims to shed light on how corporate sustainable performance can influence the degree of nonfinancial disclosure (NFD) readability, determining which pillar of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance has the most significant impact.
Giuseppe Maria Bifulco +3 more
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Historical Epistemology Meets the Human Sciences [PDF]
, 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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, 2019 Epistemology is a central issue in journalism research. Journalism is among the most influential knowledge-producing institutions in modern society, associated with high claims of providing relevant, accurate, and verified public knowledge on a daily basis.
Ekström, Mats, Westlund, Oscar
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LGBTQ+ Affirmative Care Training in Counselor Education: A Community‐Based Inquiry
Counselor Education and Supervision, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Counselor educators, counselors‐in‐training, and LGBTQ+ community members engaged in a community‐based qualitative inquiry exploring LGBTQ+ affirmative care education. Findings revealed counselor educators’ components and delivery of content, developmental implications for applying LGBTQ+ affirmative care, and gaps between education and LGBTQ+
Nancy E. Thacker Darrow +2 more
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Rationality: a social-epistemology perspective [PDF]
, 2014 Both in philosophy and in psychology, human rationality has traditionally been studied from an "individualistic" perspective. Recently, social epistemologists have drawn attention to the fact that epistemic interactions among agents also give rise to ...
Douven, I +2 more
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Human flaws and logical tools in engineering
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the limitations of human cognition, especially in engineering research, emphasizing the need for mathematical models and methods to guide decision‐making and theory validation. While human cognition excels in certain tasks, it is prone to biases that can distort our understanding.
André C. R. Martins
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The Problem of Fake News [PDF]
, 2016 Looking at the recent spate of claims about “fake news” which appear to be a new feature of political discourse, I argue that fake news presents an interesting problem in epistemology.
Dentith, M. R. X.
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Genetic epistemology and nataturalized epistemology
, 1998 Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology is not a normative epistemology, and it aims at being a form of naturalized epistemology. I try to show that in spite of that, Piaget was well well aware of the normative aspects in epistemology and tried to account for them.
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