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On the Special Epistemic Obligations of the Educator

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 208-226, April 2025.
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between educators' epistemic character and their professional responsibilities, arguing that the role of educator carries unique epistemic obligations. Drawing on virtue epistemology and the ethics of belief, Jeff Standley contends that these obligations stem from education's core epistemic aims ...
Jeff Standley
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The Eternity Solution to the Problem of Human Freedom and Divine Foreknowledge [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper I defend the eternity solution to the problem of human freedom and divine foreknowledge. After motivating the problem, I sketch the basic contours of the eternity solution.
Rota, Michael
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Personalized Learning with AI Tutors: Assessing and Advancing Epistemic Trustworthiness

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 327-353, April 2025.
Abstract AI tutors are promised to expand access to personalized learning, improving student achievement and addressing disparities in resources available to students across socioeconomic contexts. The rapid development and introduction of AI tutors raises fundamental questions of epistemic trust in education.
Nicolas J. Tanchuk, Rebecca M. Taylor
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Teaching Open‐Mindedness for Challenging Classrooms

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 292-314, April 2025.
Abstract Whether open‐mindedness (OM) counts as an admirable epistemic aim of education has been a surprisingly contentious matter. Skeptics point out that OM is only contingently truth‐conducive and that open‐minded students may be maladaptive to the hostile epistemic environment outside school. Here, Seunghyun Lee contends that, while these critiques
Seunghyun Lee
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Infallible Divine Foreknowledge cannot Uniquely Threaten Human Freedom, but its Mechanics Might [PDF]

, 2012
It is not uncommon to think that the existence of exhaustive and infallible divine foreknowledge uniquely threatens the existence of human freedom. This paper shows that this cannot be so.
Byerly, T. Ryan
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Educating Open‐Mindedness through Philosophy in Schools

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 315-326, April 2025.
Abstract Closed‐mindedness is a characteristic trait of irresponsible believers. For this reason and others, educators should actively discourage closed‐mindedness in their students. One way to do this is to cultivate its opposing virtue: open‐mindedness.
Danielle Diver
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Premortalism and the Problem of Involuntary Suffering

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 65, Issue 6, Page 629-644, November 2024.
Abstract In a recent article, James Spiegel has suggested ways in which premortalism may bolster the free will defence in response to the logical problem of evil. Building on his presentation, this present article further reinforces the premortalist free will defence whilst also critiquing similarly related defences (such as the necessity of nomic ...
Andrew Hronich
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Fatalizm logiczny i teologiczny a przedwiedza Boża. Krytyka argumentu antyredukcyjnego Lindy Zagzebski [ Fatalism logical and teological and God’s foreknowledge. Discussion with Linda Zagzebski’s anti-reductive argument] [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2014
The article presents arguments for theological and logical fatalism and analyzes the view that the theological fatalism can be reduced to or transformed into the logical one.
Dariusz Lukasiewicz
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Experts—Part II: The Sources of Epistemic Authority

Philosophy Compass, Volume 19, Issue 9-10, October 2024.
Abstract This paper investigates the topic of epistemic authority from the perspective of the ordinary people facing expert testimony. In particular, two central questions are discussed: how one should respond to expert testimony; and what should one do before expert disagreement.
Michel Croce, Maria Baghramian
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On the Interpretation of Scripture

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University
This article focuses on examining a particular method of Biblical Interpretation. This specific method is that of the Patristic Method of Biblical Interpretation, proposed by Richard Swinburne. The Patristic Method faces a specific issue, ‘the Authority’
Sijuwade Joshua
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