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Daring to doubt! Shaftesbury, doubt, and polite conversation

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Shaftesbury thought that dogmatism was an epistemic vice that violated the norms of good inquiry by inhibiting the proper exercise of reason. One way that Shaftesbury attempted to defend against dogmatic thought and culture was to recommend that society followed the norms of what he called “polite conversation.” This notion has received a fair
Sean Maroney
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Resurrecting Socrates in the Age of AI: A Study Protocol for Evaluating a Socratic Tutor to Support Research Question Development in Higher Education [PDF]

arXiv
Formulating research questions is a foundational yet challenging academic skill, one that generative AI systems often oversimplify by offering instant answers at the expense of student reflection. This protocol lays out a study grounded in constructivist learning theory to evaluate a novel AI-based Socratic Tutor, designed to foster cognitive ...
arxiv  

Changes of ERASMUS under the Umbrella of SOCRATES [PDF]

, 2001
Ulrich Teichler
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Meaning, anti‐alienation, and fulfillment

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract One intuition that motivates subjectivist theories about meaning in life is the anti‐alienation intuition, that is, for a life to be meaningful it must engage with the person whose life it is. This article contends that the anti‐alienation and subjectivist theories it motivates are best understood as tracking fulfillment in life; this is an ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
wiley   +1 more source

Killing Socrates: Plato's later thoughts on democracy [PDF]

, 2001
Christopher Rowe
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The I in logic

Theoria, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues for the significance of Kaplan's logic LD in two ways: first, by looking at how logic got along before we had LD, and second, by using it to bring out the similarity between David Hume's thesis that one cannot deduce claims about the future on the basis of premises only about the past, and the so‐called "essentiality" of the ...
Gillian Russell
wiley   +1 more source

African Sage Philosophy and Socrates [PDF]

, 2002
Gail M. Presbey
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Utopianism and Plato's Republic

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper criticises the two prominent interpretations of utopianism in Plato's Republic. The traditional argues that it is mere utopianism, seriously proposing that Kallipolis is, in fact, the ideal city. The ironic argues that the Republic is a critique of the ability for reason to reconstruct human nature and is, therefore, a dire warning ...
R. Austin Kippes
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Socratic Question Generation using Data Augmentation and Preference Optimization [PDF]

arXiv
The Socratic method is a way of guiding students toward solving a problem independently without directly revealing the solution to the problem. Although this method has been shown to significantly improve student learning outcomes, it remains a complex labor-intensive task for instructors.
arxiv  

Science, Socrates and the media [PDF]

, 2002
Pietro Greco
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