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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Social Epistemology"”.
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Pluralism and social epistemology in economics
… to identify genuine problems in economics. The social epistemic strategies that arguments for pluralism recommend point us to three concrete issues in the way economic research is organised: gender imbalances, a steep internal hierarchy, and a dismissive attitude to outsiders. I show that …
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Toward Better Knowledge: A Social Epistemology of Pragmatic Nonviolence
… priority and value of nonviolent and pragmatic social epistemology. Many concede the desirability of nonviolent problem solving, but quickly and unreflectively assent to violence when the imagination fails to procure viable alternatives. Moreover, the kind and quality of knowledge gained through …
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Theorizing Racial Democracy
… white ignorance and other influential works in social epistemology. Then, I provide the necessary sociological and historical background to understand the concept of "racial democracy" in Brazilian racial thinking. From there, I explore how techniques typically used in the philosophy of race can …
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Naturalism & Objectivity: Methods and Meta-methods
… distinct from other approaches of naturalism and social epistemology in philosophy of science and, more generally, Science and Technology Studies (STS). My goal is to employ the error statistical program in order to address a number of problems to approaches in philosophy of science, which fall …
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Bipartite Assertion: A New Account of Assertion, Defined in Terms of Responsibility and Explicit Presentation
… intersection of the philosophy of language and social epistemology. It is a phenomenon that bears on such wide-ranging topics as testimony, truth, meaning, knowledge and trust. It is thus no surprise that analytic philosophers have devoted innumerable pages to assertion, trying to give the norms …
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Virtuous Disagreement in Apologetics: Virtue Responsibilism as an Apologetical Response to the Epistemology of Disagreement
The two traditional views in the epistemology of disagreement have offered distinct responses to the challenge of epistemic conflict. The purpose of this dissertation is to challenge these responses and offer a satisfactory position. This position is congruent with social epistemology as well as …
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Knowledge from a social perspective
… of certain truth-conducive procedures which are socially-designed for the pooling of information and which we acquire through enculturation. The category of knowledge is the product of our social nature and its constitutive norms are regulative rules of our pervasive testimonial practice which …
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How Will I Know? An Epistemology of Lawyering
… lawyering is informed by recent scholarship in social epistemology and virtue epistemology. I propose a normative epistemology of lawyering, meaning specifically that my approach speaks to the professional character development of the lawyer. In the adversarial system of adjudication, lawyers …
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"What if I get it wrong?" A psycho-social enquiry into SENCOs' experiences of learning, doing and teaching maths
This research applies a psycho-social approach to explore how SENCOs think about children with learning difficulties in mathematics, their feelings when performing mathematics tasks, and their own experiences of mathematics learning. Four SENCOs from different schools were interviewed twice. These …
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The Ethics of Cognitive Security
… practice of cognitive security. I draw on the social epistemology literature, especially where it concerns testimony and epistemic dependence, and develop a conception of epistemic environmental dependence and trust. I connect this to environmental policy and philosophy scholarship that …
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Epistemic Responsibility in Echo Chambers
… This has epistemic utility in the form of a social heuristic, which not only acts as a pragmatic form of responsibility but also operates as a valuable epistemic tool for navigating the epistemic commons that we all rely on.
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A conceptual analysis of student voice exclusion in Higher Education testimony through the decolonization of Fricker’s epistemic injustice
… the literature from decolonial thinking and the epistemology of testimony to decolonize Miranda Fricker's (2007) account of epistemic injustice, this thesis examines the role of knowledge in epistemic practices and how it functions in higher education testimony to dominate, silence, and obscure …
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Epistemic Overload as Epistemic Injustice
… field. Chapter 2 levels an objection to ‘proper’ epistemology, thereby providing an indirect defense of the study of epistemic injustice. Second, theoretical development occurs in are Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6. Chapter 3 initiates the argument for epistemic overload, while Chapter 4 extends the case for …
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Epistemic Implications of Scientific Consensus and Dissent
Consensus and dissent play important roles in science. Both scientific consensus and dissent are said to be epistemically beneficial: consensus is often taken as a mark of knowledge and as a basis for informing decision-making and policy, whereas dissent is often taken as being necessary for …
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Measuring epistemic trust: towards a new lens for democratic legitimacy, misinformation, and echo chambers
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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War on universities? Neoliberalism, intellectual positioning, and knowledge production in the UK
… of the relationship between knowledge and the social conditions of its production. It begins with a theoretical exploration of the tension between Bourdieu’s concept of sociological reflexivity and Boltanski’s sociology of critique, including the epistemic and political position from which …
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Politics, Education and the Imagination in South African and Brazilian student-led mobilisations (2015-16)
… workers. They questioned the ‘post-Apartheid’ social order, continued racism and racialised capitalism, and how universities reproduce these conditions. The dissertation draws on 9 months of fieldwork across four cities, primarily encompassing interviews with student participants and staff …