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Epistemic Overload as Epistemic Injustice
Epistemic injustices are the distinctly epistemic harms and wrongs which undermine or depreciate our capacities knowers. This dissertation develops a theory of epistemic injustice and justice which accounts for excesses in epistemic goods as a source of epistemic injustice. This is a theory of …
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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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Epistemic stability
… have been withdrawn upon reflection on its epistemic credentials. In Chapter 1, I support a picture of epistemic rationality on which a belief, in order to be rational, must be stable under reflection, i.e., it must be capable of surviving reflective scrutiny. To make room for this …
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Epistemic levels
… In the second chapter, I take up the topic of epistemic akrasia-the state of believing some proposition P, while believing that one oughtn't believe that P. While many take for granted that epistemic akrasia is always irrational (and least implicitly endorse a level-bridging principle in the …
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The epistemic significance of disagreement for evaluating epistemic position
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Quantified Epistemic Logic
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Epistemic Rationality and Justification
The main thesis of this dissertation is that epistemic rationality is different from justification. While justified beliefs must be likely to be true, a belief with low probability can nevertheless be epistemically rational because informativeness is an important factor to consider in assessing the …
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Epistemic Responsibility in Echo Chambers
… the internet has drastically changed the way we epistemically interact with the world. While this is largely a boon to gaining knowledge or belief, it also offers up a plethora of epistemic challenges that ought to attract our attention. One pressing issue concerns echo chambers, which, while not …
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Generative modelling under epistemic uncertainty
… aleatoric uncertainty (data ambiguity) and epistemic uncertainty (lack of knowledge). This thesis addresses these limitations by establishing a rigorous framework for Random-Set Deep Learning, shifting from point-estimate probabilities to belief functions over the power set of outcomes. …
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Existential Belief and Epistemic Modals
… Močnik (2019a,b,c), proposes a new semantics for epistemic modals and doxastic attitudes, based on the behaviour of epistemic modals embedded under doxastic attitudes. The core data comes from Slovenian, where the existential belief verb dopuščati (‘allow for the possibility’) does not embed …
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Epistemic Injustice Toward Women in Engineering
… theory of knowledge and knowing-and other epistemic theories are gaining popularity in the EER community, and researchers are looking to the epistemic dimensions of engineering education to understand the cultural foundations of engineering that may not align with policies concerning …
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Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification in Scientific Models
… the field of uncertainty quantification (UQ), epistemic uncertainty often refers to the kind of uncertainty whose complete probabilistic description is not available, largely due to our lack of knowledge about the uncertainty. Quantification of the impacts of epistemic uncertainty is naturally …
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Epistemic extensions of answer set programming
but due to the non-monotonic nature of ASP; the weight can reflect the certainty that the rule itself is correct. ASP programs with incorrect rules may have erroneous conclusions; omitting a correct rule may also lead to errors. To derive the most certain conclusions from an uncertain ASP program; …
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Characterizing epistemic messages in the classroom
… I answer this question by identifying the epistemic messages about learning that one teacher communicates to his students about the kind of ideas that deserve space in the classroom. A theoretical construct, epistemic messages are the implicit messages a teacher sends about the nature of …
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Rational humility and other epistemic killjoys
I consider three ways in which our epistemic situation might be more impoverished than we ordinarily take it to be. I argue that we can save our robust epistemic lives from the skeptic. But only if we accept that they aren't quite as robust as we thought. In Chapter One, I ask whether the discovery …
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Epistemic Norms, A Priority, and Self-Knowledge
… field by paying attention to the structure of epistemic norms. I argue that direct a priori beliefs are governed by a structurally different kind of epistemic norm to the one that governs perceptual beliefs. That, I argue, is where the fundamental epistemological difference between the two …
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Refining the semantics for epistemic logic programs
… to present a new semantics for the language of Epistemic Specifications that accurately defines those models of associated programs that are to be considered as world views from the standpoint of a rational agent. Epistemic Specifications is a declarative programming language that is an …
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