Tag: Epistemic

Free Download Dana L. Zeidler, "A Moral Inquiry into Epistemic Insights in Science Education: Personal and Global Perspectives of Socioscientific Issues"
English | ISBN: 3031633814 | 2024 | 462 pages | PDF | 17 MB
This edited volume reveals a reflective culmination of the Socioscientific Issues (SSI) framework that examines past, present, and future trends along with advances in the field of science education. It presents, for the first time, what the precursors and nascent features of the framework entailed and examines the underlying presuppositions that have guided this research program as it matured into present day conceptualizations and cutting-edge advances of the SSI framework along with implications for the future. More precisely, the volume examines what the impetus was for the factors preceding the framework, how it came to be formalized into a conceptual and theoretical framework, the philosophical, sociological, and psychological underpinnings of the framework, its role with respect to moral education in the context of science education, and what it means to pursue

Free Download Anna Storozhuk, "Color: Ontological Status and Epistemic Role "
English | ISBN: 1616682019 | 2011 | 66 pages | PDF | 1053 KB
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Free Download The Epistemology of Protest: Silencing, Epistemic Activism, and the Communicative Life of Resistance
by José Medina
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197660908 | 452 Pages | True PDF | 2.56 MB

Free Download Jonathan Ichikawa, "Epistemic Courage"
English | ISBN: 0192889524 | 2024 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Epistemic Courage is a timely and thought-provoking exploration of the ethics of belief. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from conspiracy theories to medical misinformation, Ichikawa shows why epistemology is no mere academic abstraction – the question of what to believe couldn’t be more urgent. And, he argues, many mainstream ideas about what to believe – those emphasizing the importance of ensuring that one doesn’t believe with insufficient evidence – are incomplete and distorting in important and harmful ways. A skeptical, negative bias about belief is connected to a conservative bias that reinforces the status quo. Throughout the book, Ichikawa argues that we need to shift our focus from avoiding false beliefs to actively seeking out true ones. Throughout the book, Ichikawa uses engaging and timely examples to illustrate his points. He tackles important questions, such as how moral considerations interact with evidential ones in deciding what to believe, and how to navigate the complex ethical issues around testimony, rape culture, and epistemic injustice. Accessible and rigorous,

Free Download Reason Without Freedom: The Problem of Epistemic Normativity By David Owens
2000 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 041522389X | PDF | 4 MB
We call beliefs reasonable or unreasonable, justified or unjustified. What does this imply about belief? Does this imply that we are responsible for our beliefs and that we should be blamed for our unreasonable convictions? Or does it imply that we are in control of our beliefs and that what we believe is up to us? "Reason Without Freedom" argues that the major problems of epistemology have their roots in concerns about our control over and responsibility for belief. David Owens focuses on the arguments of Descartes, Locke and Hume – the founders of epistemology – and presents a critical discussion of the current trends in contemporary epistemology. He proposes that the problems we confront today – scepticism, the analysis of knowlege, and debates on epistemic justification – can be tackled only once we have understood the moral psychology of belief. This can be resolved when we realise that our responsibility for beliefs is profoundly different from our rationality and agency, and that memory and testimony can preserve justified belief without preserving the evidence which might be used to justify it. "Reason Without Freedom" should be of value to those interested in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind and action, ethics, and the history of 17th and 18th century.

Free Download The Theory of Epistemic Fields:
Fuzzy-Semantic Foundations of Intellectual Categories and Knowledge Factories
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031424697 | 581 Pages | PDF (True) | 33 MB

Free Download Ruth Noyes, "Reassessing Epistemic Images in the Early Modern World "
English | ISBN: 9463723358 | 2022 | 324 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This edited collection of papers explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the role of images and objects in early modern knowledge-making practices with an emphasis on mapping methodological approaches against printed pictures and things. The volume brings together work across diverse printed images, objects, and materials produced c. 1500-1700, as well as well as works in the ambit of early modern print culture, to reframe a comparative history of the rise of the ‘epistemic imprint’ as a new visual genre at the onset of the scientific revolution. The book includes contributions from the perspective of international scholars and museum professionals drawing on methodologies from a range of fields.

Free Download Marta Carretero, "Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues "
English | ISBN: 3034339933 | 2023 | 414 pages | PDF | 39 MB
Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evidentiality), and descriptive studies covering various European languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and Latvian), based on general corpora or specific discourse types. The prominent corpus-based contrastive methodology uncovers a wide range of idiosyncratic discourse-pragmatic features of diverse languages, discourses and genres. The contributions are representative of the work on evidentiality and epistemic modality in a substantial number of countries.

Free Download Marta Carretero, "Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues "
English | ISBN: 3034339933 | 2023 | 414 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evidentiality), and descriptive studies covering various European languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and Latvian), based on general corpora or specific discourse types. The prominent corpus-based contrastive methodology uncovers a wide range of idiosyncratic discourse-pragmatic features of diverse languages, discourses and genres. The contributions are representative of the work on evidentiality and epistemic modality in a substantial number of countries.

Free Download Epistemic Responsibility for Undesirable Beliefs
by Deborah K. Heikes
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031418573 | 237 Pages | True PDF | 4.43 MB