Category: Epistemology
Understanding is proposed as an alternative basis for access internalism
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in EpistemologyPhilosophical examination proposing objectual understanding as an alternative to knowledge-theoretic formulations of access internalism in epistemology.
Symbolic power shapes which nature values become legitimate
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in EpistemologyA conceptual framework integrating symbolic power and socially endorsed beliefs explains how values of nature gain legitimacy in sustainability governance, illustrated through Japanese fisheries.
Ubuntu relationality reframes Descartes’ cogito
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in EpistemologyPhilosophical critique of Descartes’ cogito through Ubuntu relational framework, arguing relationality precedes thought and provides more comprehensive ontological foundation.
Ability and epistemic position are treated as the same kind of modality
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in EpistemologyAnalysis arguing that an agent’s position to know reduces to ability to know through compossibility, subsuming epistemic modality under agentive modality.
AI-assisted qualitative analysis shifts from coding to dialogue
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in EpistemologyFramework replacing traditional coding with iterative dialogue between researchers and language models for qualitative analysis, grounded in hermeneutic epistemology.
The commentary questions Parfit’s temporal neutrality
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in EpistemologyCommentary on Scheffler’s treatment of Parfit’s temporal neutrality argument, proposing that fundamental grounds beyond relationships justify rejecting temporal neutrality.
Précis outlines themes and aims of Scientific Testimony
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in EpistemologyIntroductory framework establishing themes and objectives for a symposium examining scientific testimony, its epistemology, institutional roles, and mechanisms of expert authorization.
Arbitrary reference conflicts with weak discernibility
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in EpistemologyPhilosophical analysis establishing logical incompatibility between arbitrary reference theory and the metaphysical possibility of weakly discernible entities.
Pragmatism is presented as a way to bridge qualitative and quantitative methods
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in EpistemologyPragmatism as philosophical framework for integrating qualitative-quantitative methods in medical education research, transcending rigid paradigmatic dualism.
Aquinas shapes Stein and Wojtyła on truth and ethics
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in EpistemologyAnalysis of Thomistic influence on Edith Stein and Karol Wojtyła’s conceptions of truth, demonstrating how metaphysical realism enabled modern philosophy without rejecting tradition.
