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Teaching Students to Understand Knowledge: Stress‐Testing the ‘Justified True Belief Account’ for Critical Thinking

Future in Educational Research, Volume 3, Issue 4, Page 569-579, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This conceptual essay, grounded in a close reading of Plato's Theaetetus, argues that before educators can effectively operationalise critical thinking as the rigorous evaluation ('stress‐testing') of competing knowledge claims, university students must first understand foundational epistemological principles rooted in Plato's tripartite ...
Gerry Dunne
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Carnap Sentences and the Newman Problem [PDF]

, 2015
In this paper I discuss the Newman problem in the context of contemporary epistemic structural realism (ESR). I formulate Newman’s objection in terms that apply to today’s ESR and then evaluate a defence of ESR based on
Gogianu, Larisa Ioana
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The Behaviorisms of Skinner and Quine: Genesis, Development, and Mutual Influence [PDF]

, 2018
in april 1933, two bright young Ph.D.s were elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows: the psychologist B. F. Skinner and the philosopher/logician W. V. Quine.
Verhaegh, Sander
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Macdonald Before Quine on Truth by Convention

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 188-199, December 2025.
ABSTRACT I show that Margaret Macdonald anticipated Quine's well‐known criticisms of logical conventionalism in her unpublished 1934 PhD thesis, but that she later developed her criticisms in a direction distinct from that of Quine under the influence of Wittgenstein. Macdonald rejected as senseless the suggestion that statements of logical truth admit
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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Epistemology and Social Theory: Internal and External Questions

Mutatis Mutandis: Revista Internacional de Filosofía, 2016
The aim of this paper is to show how Rudolf Carnap’s distinction between internal and external questions might be extended and applied to social theory.
Timothy Tambassi
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Znanstveno shvaćanje svijeta – Bečki krug [PDF]

, 2006
Prikaz knjige Hans Hahn, Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, Znanstveno shvaćanje svijeta – Bečki krug, prevela Nataša Petrović, Hrvatski studiji Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Biblioteka Scopus, Zagreb 2005, 114 ...
Vukelja, Tihomir
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Aquinas and Naturalism [PDF]

, 2011
Aquinas’s actual response to a naturalistic challenge at ST I.2.3 is one which most naturalists would find unimpressive. However, I shall argue that there is a stronger response latent in his philosophical system.
O'Grady, Paul
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Advice as a model for reasons

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 329-348, September 2025.
Abstract Smith (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 55, 1995, 109) and Manne (Philosophical Studies, 167, 2014, 89), both following Williams (Making sense of humanity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995), have developed advice‐based models of practical reasons. However, advice is not an apt model for reasons.
Andrew Sneddon
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Carnap and the Tractatus' Philosophy of Logic

Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2012
This article discusses the relation between the early Wittgenstein’s and Carnap’s philosophies of logic, arguing that Carnap’s position in The Logical Syntax of Language is in certain respects much closer to the Tractatus than has been recognized.
Oskari Kuusela
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Gödel Meets Carnap: A Prototypical Discourse on Science and Religion

Zygon, 1997
Modern science, based on the laws of physics, claims validity for all events in space and time. However, it also reveals its own limitations, such as the indeterminacy of quantum physics, the limits of decidability, and, presumably, limits of ...
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