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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Epistemic Value"”.
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The Information Commons: Blockchain Based Information Networks for Shared Social and Economic Value
… of information, focusing on the determinants of epistemic value of information as a decision-making asset that can be used across distributed networks. I then examine the history of information sharing, focusing on the reliability of information amongst sometimes uncooperative agents. I go on to …
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Justice as an ideal for climate assessment
… forms of scientific inquiry? What distinctive epistemic value do assessments have that would account for their privileged role at the science-policy interface? The second question concerns the morality of assessment: Given the value-ladenness of assessment – the range of contingent choices …
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Exploring the factors that influence student tertiary institution choice at Prestige Academy by applying the SNG model
… consumption model which consist of functional value, conditional value, social value, emotional value and epistemic value on a student’s decision to attend or not to attend the institution in question. This study followed descriptive research and employed a quantitative research method. A …
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Accounting for the Epistemic Benefits of Diversity: Social Location, Identity, and the Politics of Knowledge
… social diversity in research communities can be epistemically beneficial, and end up implicitly invoking an untenable identity essentialism. I aim to support the epistemic benefits of social diversity claim by providing a solution to this weakness. In chapters one and two I describe arguments …
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Experimental Knowledge in Cognitive Neuroscience: Evidence, Errors, and Inference
… raised to argue that fNI is of little, if any, epistemic value for psychology. I show how the ES notions of severe tests and error probabilities can be applied in epistemological analyses of fMRI. The result is that hemodynamic hypotheses can be severely tested in fMRI experiments and I …
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A Critical Examination Of Understanding’s Characteristics: Why, In A Sense, Understanding Is Unique
Is understanding a unique kind of epistemic state or simply another word for knowledge? Recently, there is a dispute in the literature between those, non-reductionists, who argue that we cannot reduce understanding to knowledge. Sliwa and Khalifa, two reductionists, on the other hand, argue that …
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Epistemic Utility
… of three papers each about a separate topic in Epistemic Utility Theory (EUT). The first paper (§2) distinguishes objectivist and subjectivist conceptions of epistemic utility. It argues in favour of the latter conception on the grounds that only when epistemic utility is conceived of in this …
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Making Sense of Faultless Disagreement
… disagreements about matters of taste and value. Suppose you and I are standing at 1150 Amsterdam Avenue and you deny that this is where Columbia's Philosophy Department is located. My immediate--and I believe justifiable--reaction is to suspect that you suffer from some sort of cognitive …
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Speech and Language Therapy workforce diversity: Three studies using an increasing Transformative Research framework
… communities in ways that amplify their voices, value their knowledge, and empower them during the research cycle. Study 1 aimed to explore the experiences and practices of bilingual paediatric SLTs in the UK (n=19) through the lens of CHAT-ICF, a theoretical framework that I developed to …
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Predictive Processing Alterations in Psychosis Across Illness Stage, Hierarchical Level and Thematic Domain
… the validity of lower-level beliefs – yet this epistemically-degraded metacognitive estimate, in FEP, modulated learning and behaviour to the same extent as observed in the other groups: with viciously circular ramifications for FEP participants’ ability to robustly maintain an adaptive model in …