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Modest epistemology
Thinking properly is hard. Sometimes I mess it up. I definitely messed it up yesterday. I'll likely mess it up tomorrow. Maybe I'm messing it up right now. I'm guessing you're like me. If so, then we're both modest: we're unsure whether we're thinking rationally. And, it seems, we should be: given …
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The epistemology of enculturation
<p>Is it irrational to believe something when that belief reflects the influence of one's culture or community? Some have argued that it is, especially when it comes to beliefs about controversial matters like religion, morality, and politics. I begin by situating the problem of cultural influence …
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Epistemology of Incidental Learning
The study explored incidental learning in the workplace. Three research questions guided the study: 1. What is the nature of incidental learning in the workplace? 2. How does professional context impact incidental learning? 3. How do incidental learners know they know in the workplace? A series of …
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Three Essays in Intuitionistic Epistemology
<p>We present three papers studying knowledge and its logic from an intuitionistic viewpoint.</p> <p><em>An Arithmetic Interpretation of Intuitionistic Verification</em></p> <p>Intuitionistic epistemic logic introduces an epistemic operator to intuitionistic logic which reflects the intended BHK …
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Drawing as Epistemology for Morphology
This thesis presents drawing as epistemology for morphology through the development and dissemination of drawing practices that extend understanding of, and engagement with, the diversity of natural form. The interpretation of the term ‘morphology’ is based on Goethe’s original concept (1792) of …
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The epistemology of empathetic understanding
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Social structures, epistemology and personal identity
… to address the problems generated by conflating epistemology and ontology In the social sciences renders such theories Inadequate to the task of providing a comprehensive analysis of Personal Identity. The arguments In the thesis pinpoint the nature of this Inadequacy, and show how it might be …
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Naturalizing epistemology : reconsidering Quine and Nietzsche
… for ways to construct a more viable normative epistemology--the part of epistemology that focuses on normative notions such as rationality, justification, evidence, and reasons--for a branch of naturalism called replacement naturalism. The replacement naturalist, in contrast to other types of …
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Psychology and Virtue Epistemology: Three Studies
… lend significant support to the idea that virtue epistemology stands to gain a great deal if it is informed by scientific research on personality and cognition.
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Pluralism and social epistemology in economics
… my thesis utilises a novel approach to social epistemology to offer a way out of the impasse in which that the debate presently resides. In chapter 2, I explain the different philosophical arguments for pluralism in science and categorise them using the variables they focus on and the reasons …
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Methodological issues in epistemology and moral psychology
… dissertation is on two subfields in philosophy – epistemology and moral psychology – both of which have witnessed increased uses of psychological methods to investigate philosophical questions.
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Risking Belief: A Bayesian Decision Theoretic Epistemology
Finally, I apply BTRA to burden of proof and methodological naturalism, arguing that BTRA explicates burden of proof, and that methodological naturalism is only rational for people with certain practical and epistemic preferences: those with humanist tendencies.
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Varieties of Naturalized Epistemology: Criticisms and Alternatives
"Naturalized epistemology---the recent attempt to transform the theory of knowledge into a branch of natural science---is often criticized for dispensing with the distinctively philosophical content of epistemology. In this dissertation, I argue that epistemologists are correct to reject …
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Genetic epistemology and the sociology of knowledge
… and the sociology of knowledge. Piaget's genetic epistemology and Popper's and Lorenz's evolutionary epistemology provide much of the material which inspired this study and which is developed in it. It is argue that the sociology of knowledge has not yet seriously encountered these disciplines and …
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How Will I Know? An Epistemology of 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 can …
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Astrology and truth: a context in contemporary epistemology
… theories of truth from contemporary Western epistemology are the primary structure used to establish philosophical context. These are: the correspondence, coherence, and pragmatic theories. Some alternatives are discussed in the process of evaluating the adequacy of the three theories. No …
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Personal epistemology: Implications for stress in college students
This research study investigated whether college students' epistemological beliefs (i.e. certain knowledge, simple knowledge, fixed ability, quick learning, and omniscient authority) could predict negative stressors and/or reactions to stress in their college experience. Based on responses to two …
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A Metaphysician's User Guide: The Epistemology of Metaphysics
<p>In my dissertation, I focus primarily on the justification for beliefs in the sorts of propositions that are the focus of scrutiny and debate in contemporary analytic metaphysics. I develop a theory of justification that revolves around the explanatory fit between a metaphysical theory and its …
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