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Resisting the Drive to Theorise: A Phenomenological Perspective on Social Science Research

open access: yesMagis: Revista Internacional de Investigación en Educación, 2018
This article explores predominant uses of theory in social science research in relation to the approach of phenomenological philosophy. While phenomenology is sometimes interpreted as one theoretical or methodological paradigm amongst others in the field
Emma Williams
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Mark Timmons on the Analysis and Criticism of the Structural Contextualism in the Justification of Ethical Belief [PDF]

open access: yesاخلاق وحیانی, 2016
It is one of the most important tasks of the contemporary ethical epistemology to answer the skepticism about the justification of ethical belief. Ethical foundationalism and coherentism can be counted among the approaches against ethical skepticism ...
behrooz mohammadi
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Form of Life: A Foundational Concept for Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2020
“Form of life” is considered one of the most significant concepts in Wittgenstein's later philosophy. This term is one of his most ambiguous philosophical concepts.
Asgar Dirbaz,   +1 more
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Haack’s foundherentism is a foundationalism [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 2007
Susan Haack has always maintained that her unquestionably important foundherentist theory of epistemic justification is not a foundationalism. In a 1997 Synthese exchange, Laurence BonJour questioned her right to this claim, and she dug in and defended it.
openaire   +1 more source

Knowledge and Argument

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I argue that knowledge plays a distinctive role in psychological explanation that weaker epistemic states cannot because it is robust in the face of counterevidence in a way that they are not. Being robust in the face of counterevidence makes your belief robust in the face of counterargument.
Spencer Paulson
wiley   +1 more source

Exogenous Valuing: A Resource‐Rational Account of Openness to Environmental Influence

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Our environment can influence what we like. Advertisements may lead you to care about trendy foods, or a friend may push you toward a genre of music. Yet, the adoption of values from the world around us is not typically within the scope of theories of rationality in philosophy and cognitive science.
Alexander de Guzman, Sara Aronowitz
wiley   +1 more source

Foundationalism

open access: yes, 2012
Foundationalists distinguish basic from nonbasic beliefs. At a first approximation, to say that a belief of a person is basic is to say that it is epistemically justified and it owes its justification to something other than her other beliefs, where ...
Howard-Snyder, Daniel
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Business Realism—A New Account of Morality and Power in Business Ethics

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 3628-3636, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This article introduces a new account of morality and power in business ethics called “business realism”. To this end, it first outlines the political realism literature—a view in political philosophy that deals with the question of the relation between morality and politics.
Iwan Alijew
wiley   +1 more source

‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 490-498, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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The Place of Informal Logic in Philosophy

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2000
We argue that informal logic is epistemological. Two central questions concern premise acceptability and connection adequacy. Both may be explicated in tenns of justification, a central epistemological concept.
James B. Freeman
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