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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Naturalized Rationality. A Glance At Bolzano's Philosophy Of Mind

open access: yesThe Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2009
Bernard Bolzano's philosophy of mind is closely related to his metaphysical conceptions of substance, adherence and force. Questions as to how the mind is working are treated in terms of efficient (causal) faculties producing simple and complex ...
Anita Konzelmann-Ziv
doaj   +1 more source

Le droit de (ne pas) croire. Une réponse à Pascal Engel

open access: yesPhilosophia Scientiæ, 2017
Pascal Engel published an article entitled “Le droit de ne pas croire” [The Right not to Believe]. He argues that religious beliefs are incapable of satisfying the epistemic standard of proof or sufficient reason and as such are irrational.
Roger Pouivet
doaj   +1 more source

Duhemian Good Sense and Agent Reliabilism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Stump (2007) argues for a virtue epistemological reading of Duhem's good sense: according to him Duhem advanced good sense as a source of justified beliefs about theory choice and as a mark of the cognitive character of the physicist.
Bhakthavatsalam, Sindhuja
core   +2 more sources

Opposing consensus science through scholarly practices: The role of claims maintenance

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how three US‐based communities who oppose consensus science produce and disseminate scholarly‐like artifacts: pro‐life activists, Young Earth Creationists, and Anthropogenic Climate Crisis skeptics. Prior research shows that industry‐ or church‐backed advocacy campaigns often generate claims supported by these communities ...
Irene V. Pasquetto   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Case for an Historical Vice Epistemology

open access: yesHumana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2021
This paper encourages greater engagement between contemporary vice epistemology and the work of intellectual and social historians of the vices. I argue that studies of the nature and significance of epistemic vices and faliings can be enriched by ...
Ian James Kidd
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Reflective Knowledge: Confucius and Virtue Epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Most of sScholars have typically regarded Confucius as an ethical thinker broadly construed and not as an epistemological thinker. This paper seeks to overturn that view and, in doing so, has three basic goals.
MI, Chienkuo
core   +1 more source

Humility, Listening and ‘Teaching in a Strong Sense’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
My argument in this paper is that humility is implied in the concept of teaching, if teaching is construed in a strong sense. Teaching in a strong sense is a view of teaching as linked to students’ embodied experiences (including cognitive and moral ...
English, Andrea R.
core   +2 more sources

‘It's all very well having a diverse curriculum, but if there is no curriculum, it can be as diverse as you like’: Precarity and decolonising in the neoliberal UK higher education system

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Belief and Intellectual Autonomy [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2015
Intellectual autonomy indicates how human being can preserve her epistemic agency and intellectually manage and regulate herself. This epistemic value is commonly proposed against intellectual heteronomy according to which the believer is not capable of ...
Amirhossein Khodaparast
doaj   +1 more source

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