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Journal articles on the topic "Alternative Epistemologies"
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Mills, Charles W. "Alternative Epistemologies." Social Theory and Practice 14, no. 3 (1988): 237–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract198814316.
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Kariel, Henry. "A Seminar on Politics: Alternative Epistemologies." News for Teachers of Political Science 51 (1986): 6–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0197901900003585.
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Milan, Stefania, and Lonneke van der Velden. "The Alternative Epistemologies of Data Activism." Digital Culture & Society 2, no. 2 (December 1, 2016): 57–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2016-0205.
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Abstract As datafication progressively invades all spheres of contemporary society, citizens grow increasingly aware of the critical role of information as the new fabric of social life. This awareness triggers new forms of civic engagement and political action that we term “data activism”. Data activism indicates the range of sociotechnical practices that interrogate the fundamental paradigm shift brought about by datafication. Combining Science and Technology Studies with Social Movement Studies, this theoretical article offers a foretaste of a research agenda on data activism. It foregrounds democratic agency vis-à-vis datafication, and unites under the same label ways of affirmative engagement with data (“proactive data activism”, e. g. databased advocacy) and tactics of resistance to massive data collection (“reactive data activism”, e. g. encryption practices), understood as a continuum along which activists position and reposition themselves and their tactics. The article argues that data activism supports the emergence of novel epistemic cultures within the realm of civil society, making sense of data as a way of knowing the world and turning it into a point of intervention and generation of data countercultures. It offers the notion of data activism as a heuristic tool for the study of new forms of political participation and civil engagement in the age of datafication, and explores data activism as an evolving theoretical construct susceptible to contestation and revision.
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Maffie, James. "Alternative epistemologies and the value of truth." Social Epistemology 14, no. 4 (October 2000): 247–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0269172001/0008617.
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Danneels, Lieselot, Stijn Viaene, and Joachim Van den Bergh. "Open data platforms: Discussing alternative knowledge epistemologies." Government Information Quarterly 34, no. 3 (September 2017): 365–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2017.08.007.
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Macleod, Morna. "Development or Devastation?: Epistemologies of Mayan women's resistance to an open-pit goldmine in Guatemala." AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 12, no. 1 (March 2016): 86–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.20507/alternative.2016.12.1.7.
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Alam Choudhury, Masudul. "The epistemologies of Ghazzali, Kant and the alternative." International Journal of Social Economics 24, no. 7/8/9 (July 1997): 918–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03068299710178946.
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Dawson, Marcelle C. "Rehumanising the university for an alternative future: decolonisation, alternative epistemologies and cognitive justice." Identities 27, no. 1 (May 1, 2019): 71–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2019.1611072.
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Ricaurte, Paola. "Data Epistemologies, The Coloniality of Power, and Resistance." Television & New Media 20, no. 4 (March 7, 2019): 350–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476419831640.
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Data assemblages amplify historical forms of colonization through a complex arrangement of practices, materialities, territories, bodies, and subjectivities. Data-centric epistemologies should be understood as an expression of the coloniality of power manifested as the violent imposition of ways of being, thinking, and feeling that leads to the expulsion of human beings from the social order, denies the existence of alternative worlds and epistemologies, and threatens life on Earth. This article develops a theoretical model to analyze the coloniality of power through data and explores the multiple dimensions of coloniality as a framework for identifying ways of resisting data colonization. Finally, this article suggests possible alternative data epistemologies that are respectful of populations, cultural diversity, and environments.
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Schifani, Allison M. "Alternative sprawls, junkcities: Buenos Aires Libre and horizontal urban epistemologies." Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 1, no. 3 (September 1, 2014): 375–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jucs.1.3.375_1.
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Caballero, Rodrigo. "The resounding body : epistemologies of sound, healing, and complementary and alternative medicine on Canada's West Coast." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46415.
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The main claim of this dissertation is that practices of sound healing are driven by a skepticism towards how conventional medicine conceptualizes and treats the body. Therefore, sound healing in thought and practice may be seen as revolving around an implicit desire to redefine the body, health, and listening. I refer to this as “negating the biomedical body” and show how it is underscored by frequent recourse to medical concepts adopted from complementary and alternative medicine.
This dissertation illustrates how practitioners’ negating of the biomedical body as well as their deeply embodied conception of listening and sound bear surprising consistency across a variety of sound healing practices. In this sense, sound healing is caught up in changing values regarding health, medicine, and healthcare delivery in the contemporary west. Notwithstanding its antithetical stance, however, sound healing can also be further understood when its dialectical relation to science and medicine is considered. In practice this unstable and problematic relationship is most pronounced in the contradiction between practitioners’ negating of the biomedical body (rooted in embodiment and indeterminacy) and popular appeals to science (rooted in representation and objectification).
Ultimately, I argue that in lieu of recognition from established medicine, a distinguishing role for sound healing rests on resolving this dialectical tension. This it accomplishes through the formulation of a new vernacular— hinging on terms such as “vibration,” “frequency,” and “resonance”—and a privileging of the body’s immaterial and energetic dimensions (a process I term the “naturalization of energy”). I suggest that one outcome of this dialectic is the new “body-as-vibration,” a conceptual model of the body that is believed to be amenable to science but that still preserves sound healers’ need to formulate a new epistemology for the body and health.
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Dorion, Léa. "Organisations alternatives et empowerment : une approche féministe : Penser l'organizing depuis ses marges." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLED038.
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Cette thèse s’inscrit dans le champ de recherche sur les organisations alternatives, et met en lumière l’intérêt de mobiliser une approche féministe pour mieux comprendre ces organisations. Je propose d’étudier un processus central pour les organisations féministes : l’empowerment. L’objectif de ma thèse est tout à la fois de voir en quoi cela permet de comprendre l’organizing féministe et alternatif, et par là-même de penser l’organizing à partir de ses marges.Pour cela, j’ai conduit une ethnographie féministe au sein d’une association féministe, pendant deux ans. Le récit ethnographique que j’élabore décrit trois dimensions de l’empowerment tel qu’il se déploie dans l’association : la conscientisation, la mobilisation et la transformation sociale. Cela me permet de définir l’empowerment comme une praxis collective, dissonante et préfigurative, qui construit performativement l’organisation comme féministe. Je suggère de penser l’empowerment comme un processus d’organizing alternatif, ce qui permet d’incarner et de politiser une ontologie du devenir pour la théorie des organisationsThis thesis is part of a conversation on alternative organizations, and underlines the potential of a feminist approach to understand these organizations. I offer to study a core process of feminist organizations :empowerment. The objective is both to explore how this sheds a new light on feminist and alternative organizing, and to rethink organizing from its margins.To do so, I have conducted a two-years feminist ethnography within a feminist collective. The ethnographic tale describes three dimensions of empowerment as it is practiced within the collective: conscientization, mobilization and social transformation. It entails a definition of empowerment as a collective, dissonant andprefigurative praxis, which performativelyconstructs the organization as feminist. I suggest to think of empowerment as an alternative organizing process, which incarnatesand politicizes an ontology of becoming fororganizations
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Tesser, Charles Dalcanale. "Epistemologia contemporanea e saude : a luta pela verdade e as praticas terapeuticas." [s.n.], 2004. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/313546.
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Orientadores: Gastão W. de S. Campos, Madel T. LuzTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas
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Resumo: Vários dilemas relacionais, éticos e terapêuticos da atenção à saúde biomédica estão relacionados com aspectos da epistemologia hegemônica aplicada na saúde, baseada num ideário positivista, cartesiano, representacionista e mecanicista, proveniente da física clássica. Esse ideário também dificulta o relacionamento da biomedicina com os curadores não-científicos. Todavia, autores contemporâneos têm introduzido mudanças na epistemologia das ciências naturais, que, por hipótese, podem contribuir para amenizar ou solucionar alguns desses dilemas. O trabalho consistiu do estudo, discussão e apresentação de sete autores representativos dessas mudanças, a saber, Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn, Fleck, Feyerabend, Maturana e Latour (capítulo 1); uma reflexão sobre os possíveis desdobramentos dessas novas idéias epistemológicas na área da saúde (ensino e pesquisa, clínica e saúde coletiva) (capítulo 2); o delineamento de tendências extraídas desses autores e o esboço de um enfoque epistemológico neles baseado (capítulo 3). Como resultado, três tendências epistemológicas despontaram: a superação do positivismo mecanicista na saúde, a construção de uma nova visão epistemológica dita "co-construtivista" - em que a realidade é vista como co-construída pelos sujeitos em interação com o mundo - e a reposição do homem, seus coletivos e sua vida no centro da cena epistemológica. Isso, aplicado à saúde, mostra-se facilitador de mudanças na relação dos terapeutas com o saber biomédico e seus limites, e indutor de melhorias no relacionamento da biomedicina com os pacientes e com os curadores não-científicos. Ao final, derivada do enfoque co-construtivista, é proposta uma combinação da noção de "tradição", de Feyerabend, com as idéias de estilo e coletivo de pensamento de Fleck e com visão não-moderna de Bruno Latour, para o reconhecimento, estudo e aplicação de medicinas ou racionalidades médicas distintas de forma simétrica, sem adesão a priori a uma delas. A partir dessa combinação é possível reconhecer estruturas sócio-cognitivas especializadas de saber/prática em saúde-doença ("tradições de cura") portadoras, por hipótese, de eficácia, passíveis de estudo, comparação e oferta como recurso terapêutico à população. Nessa proposta, a biomedicina é uma dessas tradições de cura
Abstract: Several relational, both ethical and therapeutical dilemmas of the attention to biomedical health are related to certain aspects of the hegemonic epistemology in healthcare, which is based on a positivist, Cartesian, representational and mechanical ideal, deriving from classical Physics. This ideal also renders difficult the relationship between biomedicine and the non-scientific healers. Nonetheless, contemporary authors have introduces some changes in the natural sciences epistemology, that, hypothetically, may contribute to soften or solve some of these dilemmas. This work consists in the study, discussion and presentation of seven authors who are representative of these changes, i.e, Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn, Fleck, Feyerabend, Maturana and Latour (chapter 1); a reflection on the possible developments of these new epistemological ideas in the health field (teaching and research, clinic and collective health) (chapter 2); the outline of the tendencies extracted from these authors and a sketch of a epistemological focus based on them (chapter 3). As a result, three epistemological tendencies emerged: the overcome of mechanical positivism in healthcare, the construction of a new epistemological view called "co-constructivist" and the replacement of the man, his collectives and his life in the centre of the epistemological scene. That, applied to healthcare, facilitates improvement in the relationship with patients and with the non-scientific healers, as wells as in the relationship between the therapists and the biomedical knowledge and its limits. Finally, a combination of Feyerabend's notion of tradition with Fleck's ideas of style and collective of thought and the non-modern view of Bruno Latour is proposed, for the acknowledgement, study and application of different medicines or medical rationalities in a symmetrical way, without a prior involvement with one of them. This combination permits to study and to offer for the pacients terapheutics derivated from different 'cure traditions', hypothetically, with eficacy. On this proposal, biomedicine is one of that 'cure traditions'
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Souza, Luis Fernando dos Santos. "Disarming the skeptical puzzle: an epistemology of defense contrastivist." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2016. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=19668.
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nÃo hÃThis thesis aims facing the skeptical argument classic type from the contrastivist knowledge theory. The problem we will approach is when we accept the epistemic logic principle called closing principle. The principle states that knowledge is closed under implication and seems to regulate the way we expand our ordinary knowledge. Basically the closure affirms that for every epistemic subject S, target proposition p and logic Contrary q, If S knows that p and S knows that p logically implies q, so S knows that q. The problem arises when the contrary logic is a skeptical hypothesis, a hypothesis we can't know. Operating a modus tollens in the beginning closure a skeptic concludes logically that we can't know anything. To contextualize the skeptical problem contrastive solution problem that makes uses of closing we will show two theories treatment that will serve as preliminaries. The first is Fred Dretske's Relevant Alternatives Theory and the secondd is David Lewis' Contextualism. Dretske acknowledged accepting closure means surrendering to skepticism, for this reason tried to solve the problem rejecting the closing validity. The Closure rejection by Dretske, however, was considered ad hoc, therefore, unable to solve the problem. David Lewis contextualist solution, however, accepts the closure principle validity and seeks problem resolution by accusing the skeptic of misunderstand as to semantic term know. For Lewis, "knowledge" is an indexical term and , as such, undergoes contextual (semantic and epistemic) variations. Understand adequately the knowledge indexicality, for the contextualist, will show the paradox is only apparent. We will show Lewis theory advantages, but we will also show that it is unsatisfactory to solve skepticism problem. We will defend, finally, that the theory that best accommodates ordinary knowledge against skeptical arguments is Jonathan Schaffer's Contrastivism. The contrastivist theory will look to dodge the problem appealing to an epistemic revisionism. For Schaffer, the knowledge relation is essentially ternary and when we look at the skeptic puzzle by contrastivist bias we will perceive the problem is mitigated, that is, it is weakened in a most intuitive way than Dretske and Lewis theories. The contrastivist theory will defend, in an innovative way, that ordinary knowledge is compatible with skeptical doubt.
Esta tese tem por objetivo enfrentar um tipo clÃssico de argumento cÃtico a partir da teoria contrastivista do conhecimento. O problema que abordaremos surge quando aceitamos o princÃpio de lÃgica epistÃmica chamado princÃpio de fechamento. O princÃpio afirma que o conhecimento à fechado sob implicaÃÃo e parece regular o modo como expandimos nosso conhecimento ordinÃrio. Basicamente o fechamento afirma que para todo sujeito epistÃmico S, proposiÃÃo alvo p e contrÃria lÃgica q, se S sabe que p e S sabe que p implica logicamente q, entÃo S sabe que q. O problema surge quando a contrÃria lÃgica à uma hipÃtese cÃtica, uma hipÃtese que nÃo podemos conhecer. Operando um modus tollens no princÃpio de fechamento o cÃtico conclui logicamente que nÃo podemos conhecer qualquer coisa. Para contextualizar a soluÃÃo contrastivista do problema cÃtico que faz uso do fechamento apresentaremos o tratamento de duas teorias que nos servirÃo de preliminares. A primeira à a Teoria das Alternativas Relevantes de Fred Dretske e a segunda à o Contextualismo de David Lewis. Dretske reconheceu que aceitar o fechamento significa se render ao ceticismo, por esta razÃo tentou resolver o problema rejeitando a validade do fechamento. A rejeiÃÃo do fechamento por Dretske, entretanto, foi considerada ad hoc e, por isso, incapaz de resolver o problema. A soluÃÃo contextualista de David Lewis, entretanto, aceita a validade do princÃpio do fechamento e busca resolver o problema acusando o cÃtico de equivocar-se quanto à semÃntica do termo conhecer. Para Lewis o âconhecimentoâ à um termo indexical e, como tal, sofre variaÃÃes (semÃnticas e epistÃmicas) contextuais. Compreender adequadamente a indexicalidade do conhecimento, para o contextualista, mostrarà que o paradoxo à apenas aparente. Mostraremos as vantagens da teoria de Lewis, mas mostraremos tambÃm que ela à insatisfatÃria para resolver o problema do ceticismo. Defenderemos, por fim, que a teoria que melhor acomoda o conhecimento ordinÃrio frente aos argumentos cÃticos à o Contrastivismo de Jonathan Schaffer. A teoria contrastivista buscarà esquivar-se do problema apelando para um revisionismo epistÃmico. Para Schaffer, a relaÃÃo de conhecimento à essencialmente ternÃria e quando olharmos para o puzzle cÃtico pelo viÃs contrastivista perceberemos que o problema à mitigado, ou seja, à enfraquecido de um modo mais intuitivo do que as teorias de Dretske e Lewis. A teoria contrastivista defenderÃ, de maneira inovadora, que o conhecimento ordinÃrio à compatÃvel com a dÃvida cÃtica.
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Souza, Luis Fernando dos Santos. "Desarmando o puzzle cético: uma defesa da epistemologia contrastivista." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFC, 2016. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/24238.
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SOUZA, Luis Fernando dos Santos. Desarmando o puzzle cético: uma defesa da epistemologia contrastivista. 2016. 160f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Fortaleza (CE), 2016.Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-07-10T17:10:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_tese_lfssouza.pdf: 1448839 bytes, checksum: f3b0a151ca978022517d4e18ba7a8f98 (MD5)
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Esta tese tem por objetivo enfrentar um tipo clássico de argumento cético a partir da teoria contrastivista do conhecimento. O problema que abordaremos surge quando aceitamos o princípio de lógica epistêmica chamado princípio de fechamento. O princípio afirma que o conhecimento é fechado sob implicação e parece regular o modo como expandimos nosso conhecimento ordinário. Basicamente o fechamento afirma que para todo sujeito epistêmico S, proposição alvo p e contrária lógica q, se S sabe que p e S sabe que p implica logicamente q, então S sabe que q. O problema surge quando a contrária lógica é uma hipótese cética, uma hipótese que não podemos conhecer. Operando um modus tollens no princípio de fechamento o cético conclui logicamente que não podemos conhecer qualquer coisa. Para contextualizar a solução contrastivista do problema cético que faz uso do fechamento apresentaremos o tratamento de duas teorias que nos servirão de preliminares. A primeira é a Teoria das Alternativas Relevantes de Fred Dretske e a segunda é o Contextualismo de David Lewis. Dretske reconheceu que aceitar o fechamento significa se render ao ceticismo, por esta razão tentou resolver o problema rejeitando a validade do fechamento. A rejeição do fechamento por Dretske, entretanto, foi considerada ad hoc e, por isso, incapaz de resolver o problema. A solução contextualista de David Lewis, entretanto, aceita a validade do princípio do fechamento e busca resolver o problema acusando o cético de equivocar-se quanto à semântica do termo conhecer. Para Lewis o “conhecimento” é um termo indexical e, como tal, sofre variações (semânticas e epistêmicas) contextuais. Compreender adequadamente a indexicalidade do conhecimento, para o contextualista, mostrará que o paradoxo é apenas aparente. Mostraremos as vantagens da teoria de Lewis, mas mostraremos também que ela é insatisfatória para resolver o problema do ceticismo. Defenderemos, por fim, que a teoria que melhor acomoda o conhecimento ordinário frente aos argumentos céticos é o Contrastivismo de Jonathan Schaffer. A teoria contrastivista buscará esquivar-se do problema apelando para um revisionismo epistêmico. Para Schaffer, a relação de conhecimento é essencialmente ternária e quando olharmos para o puzzle cético pelo viés contrastivista perceberemos que o problema é mitigado, ou seja, é enfraquecido de um modo mais intuitivo do que as teorias de Dretske e Lewis. A teoria contrastivista defenderá, de maneira inovadora, que o conhecimento ordinário é compatível com a dúvida cética.
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Gullstrand, Emil, and Alexander Nilsson. "Kunskapssyn - en alternativ förklaring till elevers motivation." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-27519.
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Student motivation is a topic that is constantly relevant. In this literature study we have asked 'How does the personal epistemology affect the motivation in social science?'. Based on a social constructive perspective of knowledge and in relation to how motivation functions (based on an expectation-value theory), we have analyzed studies conducted in the field of personal epistemology with a meta-analytical method in order to draw a conclusion about how students’ personal epistemology influences their motivation in the field of social sciences. The result of the study is that students with a sophisticated view of knowledge, there is more motivation for learning versus students with a more simple understanding of knowledge. A sophisticated understanding of knowledge helps students to put more value in a task and expects to accomplish and understand tasks ahead of them, rather than to assess grades and other external motivational factors. In the context of the subject social sciences discursive character, a sophisticated understanding of knowledge becomes even more important for learning as the subject of social sciences is of a holistic, constructive and normative character, which can largely be equated with the knowledge that the research classifies as sophisticated.
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Pedro, Rosa Maria Leite Ribeiro. "Por uma nova concepção de ciencia para os sistemas humanos : um enfoque alternativo para os fenomenos da cultura." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/9687.
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Williges, Flavio. "O conhecimento imperfeito : ceticismo, alternativas relevantes e finitude." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/21567.
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A presente tese doutoral consiste, essencialmente, no desenvolvimento de três tarefas: a) exposição do problema filosófico do conhecimento do mundo exterior a partir da Primeira Meditação de Descartes; b) caracterização das respostas ao ceticismo filosófico acerca do mundo exterior elaboradas a partir da noção de alternativas relevantes por Austin, Dretske, Cohen e Lewis; c) avaliação do grau de sucesso das estratégias de resposta ao ceticismo baseadas na noção de relevância. A tese principal que procurei defender, mediante o desenvolvimento das tarefas elencadas, foi que a abordagem do conhecimento a partir das alternativas relevantes é válida para pensar as condições que nos legitimam a dizer que sabemos (asserção justificada), embora, do ponto das condições do conhecimento, seja ainda possível que não saibamos aquilo mesmo que dizemos saber. Em última análise, isso significa que o ceticismo filosófico acerca do conhecimento do mundo exterior pode ser uma possibilidade para seres finitos como nós somos.
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Julià, Ferré Ma Carme. "Missing Data Matrix Factorization Addressing the Structure from Motion Problem." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/5785.
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Aquest treball es centra en la factorització de matrius per obtenir l'Estructura a partir del Moviment (SFM). La idea és descomposar la matriu de trajectòries en la matriu de moviment, que conté la posició relativa càmera-objecte a cada frame, i la matriu de forma, que conté les coordenades 3D dels punts característics. Aquesta factorització es pot obtenir utilitzant que la matriu de trajectòries té un rang reduït. En particular, si les trajectòries pertanyen a un únic objecte rígid, la matriu té com a molt rang 4. Tot i que s'han proposat diverses tècniques per tractar el problema de les matrius amb forats, aquestes poden no donar resultats correctes quan el percentatge de forats a la matriu és molt gran. Proposem un esquema multiresolució iteratiu per poder tractar aquests casos amb molts elements buits a la matriu de trajectòries. L'esquema proposat consisteix en considerar submatrius amb un percentatge de forats reduït. Seguidament, els forats d'aquestes matrius són emplenats aplicant un mètode de factorització. L'objectiu final és obtenir millors resultats aplicant un mètode de factorització a la matriu emplenada amb l'esquema proposat, enlloc d'aplicar-lo a la matriu inicial, que presenta un elevat percentatge de forats. En el cas de matrius de trajectòries corresponents a punts característics que pertanyen a diversos objectes, les tècniques de factorització no es poden aplicar directament per
obtenir el moviment i la forma de cada objecte, ja que les trajectòries no estan ordenades per objectes. A més a més, s'ha de tenir en compte un altre problema: l'estimació del rang de la matriu de trajectòries. El problema és que amb forats, el rang de la matriu no pot ser calculat directament. Per altra banda, com que hi ha múltiples objectes, és difícil d'estimar-lo, sense utilitzar informació com ara nombre d'objectes o tipus de moviment d'aquests. Presentem una tècnica per estimar el rang d'una matriu de trajectòries amb forats. La idea és que, si les trajectòries pertanyen a objectes rígids, la freqüència espectral de la matriu de trajectòries inicial no hauria de variar un cop la matriu ha estat emplenada. Els forats de la matriu són emplenats amb un mètode de factorització, considerant diferents valors per al rang de la matriu. Al mateix temps, el rang de la matriu de trajectòries és estimat fent servir una mesura que compara la freqüència espectral de cada matriu emplenada amb la de la matriu inicial. El proper pas consisteix en segmentar les trajectòries segons el seu moviment. Finalment, qualsevol tècnica d'Estructura a partir de Moviment per a un únic objecte pot ser aplicada per trobar el moviment i la forma de cada objecte.
Intentem aplicar la metodologia proposada per al problema de l'Estructura a partir de Moviment a d'altres aplicacions, no només dins el camp de la visió per computador. En particular, l'objectiu és adaptar els mètodes Alternats per poder aplicar-los a diferents problemes de dimensionalitat reduïda. Una de les possibles aplicacions és la fotometria: la idea és recuperar la reflectància i les normals a la superfície i la direcció de la llum en cada imatge, a partir d'imatges obtingudes sota diferents condicions de llum. En una segona aplicació, l'objectiu és adaptar els mètodes Alternats per poder omplir els forats en una matriu de dades provinents d'expressions de gens. Aquestes matrius són generades amb la informació que proporcionen els DNA microarrays. Finalment, els mètodes Alternats són aplicats a matrius de dades de sistemes de recomanació, molt usats en E-commerce. Aquestes matrius contenen puntuacions que els usuaris han donat a certs productes. La idea és predir les puntuacions que un usuari concret donaria a altres productes, utilitzant la informació emmagatzemada en el sistema.
This work is focused on the missing data matrix factorization addressing the Structure from Motion (SFM) problem. The aim is to decompose a matrix of feature point trajectories into the motion and shape matrices, which contain the relative camera-object motion and the 3D positions of tracked feature points, respectively. This decomposition can be found by using the fact that the matrix of trajectories has a reduced rank. Although several techniques have been proposed to tackle this problem, they may give undesirable results when the percentage of missing data is high. An iterative multiresolution scheme is presented to deal with matrices with high percentages of missing data. Experimental results show the viability of the proposed approach.
In the multiple objects case, factorization techniques can not be directly applied to obtain the SFM of every object, since trajectories are not sorted into different objects. Furthermore, another problem should be faced out: the estimation of the rank of the matrix of trajectories. The problem is that, in this case, the rank of the matrix of trajectories is not bounded, since any prior knowledge about the number of objects nor about their motion is used. This problem becomes more difficult with missing data, since singular values can not be computed to estimate the rank. A technique to estimate the rank of a missing data matrix of trajectories is presented. The good performance of the proposed technique is empirically shown considering sequences with both, synthetic and real data. Once the rank is estimated and the matrix of trajectories is full, the motion segmentation of trajectories is computed. Finally, any factorization technique for the single object case gives the shape and motion of every object.
In addition to the SFM problem, this thesis also shows other applications that can be addressed by means of factorization techniques. Concretely, the Alternation technique, which is used through the thesis, is adapted to address each particular problem. The first proposed application is the photometric stereo: the goal is to recover the reflectance and surface normals and the light source direction at each frame, from a set of images taken under different lighting conditions. In a second application, the aim is to fill in missing data in gene expression matrices by using the Alternation technique. Finally, the Alternation technique is adapted to be applied in recommender systems, widely considered in E-commerce. For each application, experimental results are given in order to show the good performance of the proposed Alternation-based strategy.
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Fiore, Juliano De. "A guerra dos mundos ou as relações institucionais entre a homeopatia e a medicina científica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-11122015-140435/.
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O Objetivo deste trabalho é tratar da Homeopatia e da Medicina Científica, e de sua convivência institucional, considerando principalmente o cenário posterior à década de 1980, quando de sua assimilação pela Medicina Oficial brasileira. O que se pretende demonstrar, fundamentalmente, é que a Medicina Científica e a Homeopatia são essencialmente diferentes, e acima de tudo demonstrar que este caso particular de relações institucionais deve ser entendido sob pelo menos duas perspectivas, de uma epistemológica, e de outra sociológica. Essas duas perspectivas são essenciais para entender a moderna relação institucional entre Homeopatia e Medicina Científica, que acontece num contexto de assimilação institucional da Homeopatia pela Medicina Oficial. Ainda que essa integração nunca possa vir à ser concretizada completamente, essa assimilação é resultado de uma grande mudança no universo simbólico das culturas ocidentais, principalmente dos conceitos e valores ligados ao imaginário da saúde. Neste novo contexto simbólico, a ciência como instituição é ressignificada e e devidamente recontextualizada, em termos de cultura popular e senso comum (universo simbólico da vida cotidiana), de modo que passa a poder acomodar os mais diversos tipos de conhecimentos em seu universo. É sob a perspectiva do processo de racionalização e desencantamento do mundo que essas instituições são analisadas e a compreensão dos universos simbólicos mantidos por cada grupo é o objetivo central desse trabalho.This study deals with Homeopathy and Scientific Medicine and focus its institutional relationship, especially considering the latter scenario to the 1980s decade, after its assimilation by brazilian Official Medicine. It intends to demonstrate that Scientific Medicine and Homeopathy are fundamentally and essentially different things and, above all, demonstrate that this particular case of institutional relations should be understood in, at least, two perspectives: epistemological, and sociological. These perspectives are essential to understand the modern relationship between Homeopathy and Official Medicine - which takes place in a context of institutional assimilation of homeopathy by the Official Medicine (although this integration could never come to be fully realized). This assimilation is the result of a change in the symbolic universe of western cultures, especially the concepts and values linked to the health imaginary. In this new symbolic context, science, as an institution, is resignified and recontextualized in terms of popular culture and common sense (the symbolic universe of everyday life), allowing to accommodate all different types of knowledge in this new resigninified universe of science. Its from the process of rationalization and disenchantment of the worlds perspective that these institutions are analyzed, and the understanding of the symbolic universes maintained by each group is the central objective of this work.
Books on the topic "Alternative Epistemologies"
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Afolayan, Adeshina, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, and Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, eds. Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60652-7.
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Lelli, Fabio. Medicine non convenzionali: Problemi etici ed epistemologici. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2007.
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Beristáin, Antonio. Epistemología penal-criminológica hacia la sanción reparadora: Narcotráfico y alternativas de la cárcel. Culiacán Rosales, Sinaloa, México: Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, 1996.
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Shu, Yuan, Otto Heim, and Kendall Johnson, eds. Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Transpacific American Studies. Hong Kong University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888455775.001.0001.
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As part of the paradigm shift from the transatlantic to the transpacific in transnational American studies, this volume not only offers critical ways in which we rethink American exceptionalism, but it also engages the critical visions represented by New American studies, Asian studies, Asian American studies, and Pacific studies. By calling attention to the “oceanic archives” and indigenous epistemologies, the volume addresses colonialism and imperialism at their roots from both sides of the colonizer and the colonized and articulates what has been central to de-colonial thinking—indigenous epistemologies and ontologies, non-Western knowledge production and dissemination. As the transpacific continues to hold the global spotlight as moments of military, cultural, and geopolitical contentions as well as spaces of economic integration, negotiation, and resistance on national and global scales, we develop transpacificAmerican studies as the new cutting-edge in transnational American studies, global studies, and postcolonial studies.The essays collected in the volume recover the early oceanic archives to remap transpacific movements in different directions and at different moments, interrogate the colonial archives to reinvent indigenous ontologies and epistemologies,explore alternative oceanic archives to develop competing visions and forms of the transpacific. Above all, it speculates upon new directions in which transpacific American studies may pursue.
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Carnahan, Mary. Double vision: The relative value of theoretical frameworks derived from alternative epistemologies for understanding a principal's performance. 1995.
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Keating, AnaLouise. Post-Oppositional Resistance? University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037849.003.0007.
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This introductory chapter calls attention to the limitations of oppositional politics in initiating change, particularly due to the underlying binary systems on which oppositional epistemologies and practices are generally based. At the same time this chapter advocates for a post-oppositional resistance as an alternative to conventional oppositional thinking and scholarship. These alternatives are described as “threshold theories” to underscore their nonbinary, liminal, potentially transformative status. Threshold theories facilitate and enact movements “betwixt and between” divergent worlds, enabling us to establish fresh connections among distinct (and sometimes contradictory) perspectives, realities, peoples, theories, texts, and/or worldviews. Finally, this chapter looks at Gloria Anzaldúa's theories and practice of nepantleras and nepantla to consider some of the forms that these nonoppositional threshold theories can take.
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Construyendo las epistemologías del sur : para un pensamiento alternativo de alternativas. CLACSO, 2018.
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Intemann, Kristen. Feminist Standpoint. Edited by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.013.14.
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Despite a long history of scholarship on feminist standpoint theory, the central claims of the view are often interpreted in different ways, some of which render them implausible. Moreover, as more sophisticated versions of the view have evolved, it has become less clear how standpoint theory offers a distinct alternative to other feminist epistemologies or philosophies of science, such as feminist empiricism. This chapter elucidates and defends an interpretation of feminist standpoint theory known as feminist standpoint empiricism, understood as a branch of feminist empiricism that is committed to producing empirically adequate knowledge that challenges, rather than reinforces, systems of oppression. In doing so, it identifies not only the claims that feminist standpoint theorists share with feminist empiricists, but also the unique epistemological and political benefits that feminist standpoint theory offers.
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Keating, AnaLouise. “I am your other I”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037849.003.0003.
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This chapter offers an alternative to more conventional versions of identity politics—transformational identity politics. Transformational identity politics represent nonbinary models of identity; differential subjectivities; an expanded, deeply multiplicitous concept of the universal; and relational epistemologies that facilitate the creation of new forms of commonalities. Although identity politics originated in a space of intersectionality that embraced multiple, complex identities, this chapter argues that contemporary uses of identity politics have become too oppositional to effect radical change. However, rather than entirely rejecting identity-based politics and the personalized experiences on which they're based, the chapter redefines identity by anchoring it in a metaphysics of interconnectedness. Through an analysis of Paula Gunn Allen's, Gloria Anzaldúa's, and Audre Lorde's threshold positionings (their creative use of identity politics, as it were), this chapter illustrates some of the forms transformational identity politics can take.
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Garrard, Virginia. New Faces of God in Latin America. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197529270.001.0001.
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This is a historically infused study of the intersection of local encounters with global religion (Christianity) in Latin America. Using a mixture of deep archival research and ethnographic methods, this book discusses how everyday people inscribe supernormal spirit power (in a variety of guises) with the ability to provide alternative sources of authority and validate “otros saberes” (other knowledges or epistemologies) in the context of specific cultures to create order and meaning in a chaotic late-capitalist universe. This work is about emerging forms of “new” Christianity in Latin America—a Christianity that is as utilitarian as it is miraculous and as quotidian as it is supernatural. It is “new” in that it is innately modern in a very specific sense, directly empowering believers with a repertoire of strategies to survive, even thrive, in a challenging and often hostile modern world.
Book chapters on the topic "Alternative Epistemologies"
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Knowles, F. E., and Lavonna L. Lovern. "Classic and Alternative Epistemologies." In A Critical Pedagogy for Native American Education Policy, 117–31. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137557452_8.
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Afolayan, Adeshina, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, and Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba. "Introduction: Alternative Epistemologies and the Imperative of an Afrocentric Mythology." In Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa, 1–16. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60652-7_1.
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Olaniyi, Akin. "Towards an Endogenous Interpretation of Polygamy and Gender Relations: A Critique of Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives." In Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa, 165–76. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60652-7_10.
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Akoleowo, Victoria Openif’Oluwa. "Religion, Patriarchal Construction and Gender Complementarity in Nigeria." In Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa, 177–203. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60652-7_11.
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Oludare, Olupemi E. "Yoruba Traditional Instrumental Ensemble and Indigenous Knowledge Systems." In Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa, 205–19. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60652-7_12.
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Adam, Sani Yakubu. "Knowledge Production and Pedagogy Among the Islamic Scholars in Kano: A Case-Study of Shaykh Tijani Usman Zangon Bare-Bari (1916–1970)." In Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa, 221–34. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60652-7_13.
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Janvid, Mikael. "Between Particularism and Universalism: The Promise of Epistemic Contextualism in African Epistemology." In Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa, 19–33. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60652-7_2.
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Mayanja, Evelyn Namakula. "The Quest for Africanizing Qualitative Inquiry: A Pathway to Methodological Innovation." In Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa, 35–60. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60652-7_3.
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Oloruntoba, Samuel Ojo. "The State and the State of Knowledge Production in African Universities: Rethinking Identity and Curricula." In Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa, 61–75. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60652-7_4.
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Adetayo, Saheedat. "Afrocentricity, African Agency and Knowledge System." In Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa, 77–90. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60652-7_5.
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D’Sena, Peter. "Decolonising the curriculum. Contemplating academic culture(s), practice and strategies for change." In Learning Connections 2019: Spaces, People, Practice. University College Cork||National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/lc2019.13.
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In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town called for the statue of Cecil Rhodes, the 19th century British coloniser, to be removed from their campus. Their clarion call, in this increasingly widespread #RhodesMustFall movement, was that for diversity, inclusion and social justice to become a lived reality in higher education (HE), the curriculum has to be ‘decolonised’. (Chantiluke, et al, 2018; Le Grange, 2016) This was to be done by challenging the longstanding, hegemonic Eurocentric production of knowledge and dominant values by accommodating alternative perspectives, epistemologies and content. Moreover, they also called for broader institutional changes: fees must fall, and the recruitment and retention of both students and staff should take better account of cultural diversity rather than working to socially reproduce ‘white privilege’ (Bhambra, et al, 2015) Concerns had long been voiced by both academics and students about curricula dominated by white, capitalist, heterosexual, western worldviews at the expense of the experiences and discourses of those not perceiving themselves as fitting into those mainstream categories (for an Afrocentric perspective, see inter alia, Asante, 1995; Hicks & Holden, 2007) The massification of HE across race and class lines in the past four decades has fuelled these debates; consequentially, the ‘fitness’ of curricula across disciplines are increasingly being questioned. Student representative bodies have also voiced the deeper concern that many pedagogic practices and assessment techniques in university systems serve to reproduce society’s broader inequalities. Certainly, in the UK, recent in-depth research has indicated that the outcomes of inequity are both multifaceted and tangible, with, for example, graduating students from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds only receiving half as many ‘good’ (first class and upper second) degree classifications as their white counterparts (RHS, 2018). As a consequence of such findings and reports, the momentum for discussing the issues around diversifying and decolonising the university has gathered pace. Importantly, however, as the case and arguments have been expressed not only through peer reviewed articles and reports published by learned societies, but also in the popular press, the core issues have become more accessible than most academic debates and more readily discussed by both teachers and learners (Arday and Mirza, 2018; RHS, 2018). Hence, more recently, findings about the attainment/awarding gap have been taken seriously and given prominence by both Universities UK and the National Union of Students, though their shared conclusion is that radical (though yet to be determined) steps are needed if any movements or campaigns, such as #closingthegap are to find any success. (Universities UK, 2019; NUS, 2016; Shay, 2016)
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Gomes Vidal, Clarissa, and Daniel Magalhães Goulart. "Configuração subjetiva do transtorno da dependência química: alternativas ao tratamento biomédico." In II SIMPóSIO NACIONAL DE EPISTEMOLOGIA QUALITATIVA E SUBJETIVIDADE. Galoa, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17648/sneqs-2019-110488.
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