Tag: Epistemological

Free Download Itinerant Curriculum Theory: A Declaration of Epistemological Independence
by João M. Paraskeva
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1350292982 | 283 Pages | True PDF | 7.8 MB

Free Download Zijderveld, "Rickert’s Relevance: The Ontological Nature and Epistemological Functions of Values"
English | 2006 | pages: 379 | ISBN: 9004151737 | PDF | 1,1 mb
In the wake of the renewed interest in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the neo-Kantian theories of Heinrich Rickert (1863-1936) are increasingly drawing attention. This monograph is an attempt to rescue Rickert from an undeserved oblivion by an analysis of his systematic philosophy of values. The author discusses Rickert’s epistemology and ontology which lay the foundation for a methodology of the Natural Sciences and the Humanities. In Rickert’s view these types of science are not in opposition to each other but operate on a continuum between two extremes: a ‘generalizing’ (natural-scientific) and an ‘individualizing’ (cultural-scientific) approach to reality. The social sciences in particular operate on this continuum in a flexible manner, sometimes close to the natural-scientific pole as in the case of experimental psychology or econometrics, sometimes close to the cultural-scientific approach, as in the case of cultural sociology or cultural history. Thus there is in Rickert’s logic of science no room for any methodological quarrel.

Free Download Ian M. Crystal, "Self-Intellection and its Epistemological Origins in Ancient Greek Thought "
English | ISBN: 0754630579 | 2002 | 230 pages | EPUB | 13 MB
Can the intellect or the intellectual faculty be its own object of thought, or can it not think or apprehend itself? This book explores the ancient treatments of the question of self-intellection – an important theme in ancient epistemology and of considerable interest to later philosophical thought. The manner in which the ancients dealt with the intellect apprehending itself, took them into both the metaphysical and epistemological domains with reflections on questions of thinking, identity and causality. Ian Crystal traces the origins from which the concept of self-intellection springs, by examining Plato’s account of the epistemic subject and the emergence of self-intellection through the Aristotelian account, before the final part of the book explores the problem of how the intellect apprehends itself, and its resolution including Descriptioninus’ reformulation and the dilemma raised by Sextus Empiricus. Crystal concludes that Descriptioninus recasts the metaphysical structures of Plato and Aristotle in such a way that he casts the concept of self-intellection in an entirely new light and offers a solution to the problem.

Free Download Entrepreneurial Orientation : Epistemological, Theoretical, and Empirical Perspectives
by Andrew C. Corbett, Patrick M. Kreiser
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1838675728 | 256 Pages | True ePUB | 4.84 MB

Free Download Education, Culture and Epistemological Diversity: Mapping a Disputed Terrain By Claudia W. Ruitenberg, D. C. Phillips (auth.), Claudia W. Ruitenberg, D.C. Phillips (eds.)
2012 | 162 Pages | ISBN: 9400720653 | PDF | 1 MB
In the recent educational research literature, it has been asserted that ethnic or cultural groups have their own distinctive epistemologies, and that these have been given short shrift by the dominant social group. Educational research, then, is pursued within a framework that embodies assumptions about knowledge and knowledge production that reflect the interests and historical traditions of this dominant group. In such arguments, however, some relevant philosophical issues remain unresolved, such as what claims about culturally distinctive epistemologies mean, precisely, and how they relate to traditional epistemological distinctions between beliefs and knowledge. Furthermore, can these ways of establishing knowledge stand up to critical scrutiny? This volume marshals a variety of resources to pursue such open questions in a lively and accessible way: a critical literature review, analyses from philosophers of education who have different positions on the key issues, a roundtable discussion, and interactions between the two editors, who sometimes disagree. It also employs the work of prominent feminist epistemologists who have investigated parallel issues with sophistication. This volume does not settle the question of culturally distinctive epistemologies, but teases out the various philosophical, sociological and political aspects of the issue so that the debate can continue with greater clarity.