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Journal articles on the topic "Epistemology of belief"

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Chernyak, Alexey Z. "Virtue Epistemology as Anti-luck Epistemology." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 58, no. 4 (2021): 77–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps202158462.

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The idea that knowledge as an individual mental attitude with certain propositional content is not only true justified belief but a belief the truth of which does not result from any kind of luck, is widely spread in contemporary epistemology. This account is known as anti-luck epistemology. A very popular explanation of the inconsistency of that concept of knowledge with the luck-dependent nature of truth (so called veritic luck taking place when a subject’s belief could not be true if not by mere coincidence) presumes that the status of propositional knowledge crucially depends on the qualit

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Kostina, Alina O. "Epistemology of Belief." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 57, no. 2 (2020): 231–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps202057233.

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The following article discovers current trends of contemporary epistemology, related to epistemic agent and his/her activities. A number of issues raised here describe internal experience of the agent, such as (in)voluntary nature of belief formation, trust in one’s faculties of perception, correspondence of formed beliefs to evidence, demarcation between purely epistemic and pragmatic rationality. Another part of the issues is related to external experiences of the agent. The most crucial among them are: blameworthiness of the agent’s belief system, limited intake of testimonial knowledge as

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Bishop, Michael A. "The Autonomy of Social Epistemology." Episteme 2, no. 1 (2005): 65–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/epi.2005.2.1.65.

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Social epistemology is autonomous: When applied to the same evidential situations, the principles of social rationality and the principles of individual rationality sometimes recommend inconsistent beliefs. If we stipulate that reasoning rationally from justified beliefs to a true belief is normally sufficient for knowledge, the autonomy thesis implies that some knowledge is essentially social. When the principles of social and individual rationality are applied to justified evidence and recommend inconsistent beliefs and the belief endorsed by social rationality is true, then that true belief

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Smith, Nicholas. "How To Hang A Door: Picking Hinges for Quasi-Fideism." European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 13, no. 1 (2021): 51–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v13i1.3059.

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Abstract: In the epistemology of the late Wittgenstein, a central place is given to the notion of the hinge: an arational commitment that provides a foundation of some sort for the rest of our beliefs. Quasi-fideism is an approach to the epistemology of religion that argues that religious belief is on an epistemic par with other sorts of belief inasmuch as religious and non-religious beliefs all rely on hinges. I consider in this paper what it takes to find the appropriate hinge for a quasi-fideist approach to the epistemology of religion.

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Gilbert, Margaret. "Collective Epistemology." Episteme 1, no. 2 (2004): 95–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/epi.2004.1.2.95.

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Philosophical epistemology is concerned with knowledge and related phenomena such as belief. In order to have a general label for such phenomena I shall refer to them as cognitive states. Differing accounts of a variety of cognitive states have been produced. For instance, according to one venerable – if debated – account of knowledge, it is justified true belief. Belief has been contrasted with acceptance, though the belief-acceptance contrast has been drawn in a variety of different ways.

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Antognazza, Maria Rosa. "KNOWLEDGE AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF." Think 20, no. 58 (2021): 39–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147717562100004x.

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ABSTRACTIntroductions to epistemology routinely define knowledge as a kind of belief which meets certain criteria. In the first two sections of this article, I discuss this account and its application to religious epistemology by the influential movement known as Reformed Epistemology. In the last section, I argue that the controversial consequences drawn from this account by Reformed Epistemology offer one of the best illustrations of the untenability of a conception of knowledge as a kind of belief. I conclude by sketching an alternative account of cognition which also provides a different f

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Da Silva, Ronaldo Miguel. "EPISTEMOLOGIA DO TESTEMUNHO: críticas à refutação do reducionismo local quanto ao desempenho justificacional do testemunho." Cadernos do PET Filosofia 5, no. 9 (2015): 17–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.26694/cadpetfil.v5i9.3131.

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A epistemologia do testemunho tem reacendido forte interesse entre a classe dos atuais epistemólogos. Tem sido redescoberta a sua indispensabilidade epistêmica e reassumida a posição de que o testemunho é uma fonte de crenças penetrante e natural, no qual muitas das crenças nele fundamentadas constituem conhecimento e estão justificadas. Reducionistas e antirreducionistas se alternam, repetidamente, para explicar o papel epistêmico do testemunho na justificação da crença testemunhal, gerando um acirrado debate na epistemologia contemporânea. Advogada do Reducionismo local, Elizabeth Fricker re

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Christensen, David. "Introduction: The Epistemology of Disagreement." Episteme 6, no. 3 (2009): 231–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e1742360009000677.

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One of the most salient features of forming beliefs in a social context is that people end up disagreeing with one another. This is not just an obvious fact about belief-formation; it raises interesting normative questions, especially when people become aware of the opinions of others. How should my beliefs be affected by the knowledge that others hold contrary beliefs? In some cases, the answer seems easy. If I have reason to think that my friend is much better informed than I am, her dissent will often require substantial revision in my belief. If I have reason to think she's mentally derang

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Goodman, Jeremy, and Bernhard Salow. "Epistemology Normalized." Philosophical Review 132, no. 1 (2023): 89–145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00318108-10123787.

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We offer a general framework for theorizing about the structure of knowledge and belief in terms of the comparative normality of situations compatible with one’s evidence. The guiding idea is that, if a possibility is sufficiently less normal than one’s actual situation, then one can know that that possibility does not obtain. This explains how people can have inductive knowledge that goes beyond what is strictly entailed by their evidence. We motivate the framework by showing how it illuminates knowledge about the future, knowledge of lawful regularities, knowledge about parameters measured u

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Tilley, Terrence W. "Reformed Epistemology in a Jamesian Perspective." Horizons 19, no. 1 (1992): 84–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900025676.

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AbstractThis essay argues that the reformed epistemologists (William Alston, Alvin Plantinga) have not (yet) sustained claims in religious epistemology significantly more extensive than William James did in the Varieties. It argues that even if reformed epistemologists show that religious belief can have a positive epistemic status, their approach may finally lead to relativism (given that religious traditions generate contradictory religious beliefs) because it offers no method for finding which, if any, concrete religious beliefs might be preferable to hold or in which religious practices on

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Epistemology of belief"

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Bergström, Jonathan. "Group Belief and Justification : Analyzing Collective knowledge." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-129338.

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Hild, Matthias. "Induction and the dynamics of belief." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389702.

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Scott, Kyle Irwin Andrew. "Disagreement and the rationality of religious belief." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/15785.

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Concerning religious matters there are a wide variety of views held that are often contradictory. This observation creates a problem when it comes to thinking about the rationality of religious belief. Can religious belief be rational for those who are aware of this widespread disagreement? This is a problem for a view in religious epistemology known as reformed epistemology. Alvin Plantinga, one of the leading defenders of this view, has argued that there is no successful argument to show that religious belief is irrational or in any other way epistemically unacceptable – he calls these argum

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Mischler, Steven J. "Testimony Without Belief." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49109.

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In my thesis I ask the epistemological question: If a speaker testifies to some proposition p to some hearer, and the hearer learns that p, must that speaker believe that p? Those who maintain the traditional view in the epistemology of testimony claim that testimony is primarily a way in which speakers transmit beliefs to hearers. If this is the case, then in order to transmit the belief that p, the speaker must be in possession of a belief that p. Other epistemologists reject this view altogether and argue that when speakers stand in the right sort of epistemic relation to the statements the

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Prentice-Davidson, Blaise Che. "Scepticism and the Language of Belief James’ ’TheWill to Believe’ and the Production of Scepticism in Epistemology." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20804.

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There is no neutral generic epistemic state which it makes sense to ascribe to an inquirer in respect of each and every putative truth on which an inquirer relies. The term ‘belief’ does not signify such a state. Rather, such a state is an invention of epistemology itself. ‘Belief’ is a term used within our epistemic practice to mark epistemic positions evaluatively. More specifically, ‘belief’ is used to signal epistemic risk or a lack of demonstrability and is not a sub- category or more fundamental state than knowledge, but rather an alternative characterisation to it. In this thesis, I arg

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Fleming, Forrest Shoup. "Truth, Belief, and Inquiry| A New Theory of Knowledge." Thesis, University of California, Irvine, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626962.

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<p> My dissertation lies at the philosophical intersection of the American pragmatist tradition and contemporary epistemology. By treating truth, justification, and belief as matters of degree, I develop a measure of knowledge that captures all of our fundamental intuitions while providing answers to the problems of epistemic luck, skepticism, and scientific pessimism. </p><p> Traditionally, knowledge is understood as justified true belief that is not due to luck. My project follows this general outline. First, I describe the pragmatist understanding of truth first articulated by Charles

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Crawley, William H. G. "Faith and warrant : a study of Alvin Plantinga's epistemology of religious belief." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287403.

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McNabb, Tyler Dalton. "Closing Pandora's Box : a defence of Alvin Plantinga's epistemology of religious belief." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7587/.

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I argue (1) that Alvin Plantinga’s theory of warrant is plausible and (2) that, contrary to the Pandora’s Box objection, there are certain serious world religions that cannot successfully use Plantinga’s epistemology to demonstrate that their beliefs could be warranted in the same way that Christian belief can be warranted. In arguing for (1), I deploy Ernest Sosa’s Swampman case to show that Plantinga’s proper function condition is a necessary condition for warrant. I then engage three objections to Plantinga’s theory of warrant, each of which attempts to demonstrate that his conditions for w

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Bae, Bosco Byungeun. "The textures of 'belief' : an interdisciplinary study towards a social scientific epistemology." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11289/.

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This thesis develops an interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy and the social sciences through an investigation of ‘belief.’ Drawing on anthropology, epistemology, and social psychology, the thesis argues that epistemology can assist social science through its analytic utility and capacity for clarification in distinguishing the textures of ‘belief’ while social science challenges epistemology to develop a more descriptive, interactive, and multidimensional account of ‘belief.’ The thesis further argues that ‘beliefs’ bind society and individual together and serve as the units of embodi

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Herrine, Luke. "What Makes a Belief Warranted? A Pragmatist’s Answer." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1275599008.

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Books on the topic "Epistemology of belief"

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Vahid, Hamid. The Epistemology of Belief. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230584471.

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Olsson, Erik J. Coherence: Studies in epistemology and belief revision. Acta universitatis Upsaliensis, 1997.

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Hrsg.: Woudenberg, Rene van, ed. Basic belief and basic knowledge: papers in epistemology. Ontos Verlag Dr. Rafael H untelmann, 2005.

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1957-, Axtell Guy, ed. Knowledge, belief, and character: Readings in virtue epistemology. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000.

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Arnold, Daniel Anderson. Buddhists, brahmins, and belief: Epistemology in south Asian philosophy of religion. Columbia University Press, 2005.

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1948-, Runzo Joseph, Ihara Craig K. 1943-, Plantinga Alvin, and Philosophy Symposium (California State University, Fullerton) (11th : 1981 : California State University, Fullerton), eds. Religious experience and religious belief: Essays in the epistemology of religion. University Press of America, 1986.

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Ogbozo, Chrys Nnaemeka. Bertrand Russell's critiques of knowledge and belief as prolegomena to complementary epistemology. Rhombos-Verlag, 2013.

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Lucire, Yolande. Constructing RSI: Belief and desire. UNSW Press, 2003.

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Alvin, Plantinga, and Kvanvig Jonathan L, eds. Warrant in contemporary epistemology: Essays in honor of Plantinga's theory of knowledge. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1996.

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Künstler, Raphaël. Croire ou accepter?: Analyses conceptuelles et études de cas. Hermann, 2016.

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Book chapters on the topic "Epistemology of belief"

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Hannon, Michael, and Elise Woodard. "Political Belief." In Political Epistemology. Routledge, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003089483-7.

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Gendler, Tamar. "Alief and Belief." In Contemporary Epistemology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119420828.ch7.

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Gillis, Chester L. "Epistemology." In A Question of Final Belief. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19641-8_3.

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Rinard, Susanna. "No Exception for Belief." In Contemporary Epistemology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119420828.ch4.

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Weirich, Paul. "Belief and Acceptance." In Handbook of Epistemology. Springer Netherlands, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-1986-9_13.

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Feldman, Richard. "Voluntary Belief and Epistemic Evaluation." In Contemporary Epistemology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119420828.ch2.

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Inan, Ilhan. "Curiosity, Belief and Acquaintance." In Virtue Epistemology Naturalized. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04672-3_9.

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Arló-Costa, Horacio. "Indeterminacy and Belief Change." In Dynamic Formal Epistemology. Springer Netherlands, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0074-1_10.

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Dretske, Fred I. "The Epistemology of Belief." In Doubting. Springer Netherlands, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1942-6_15.

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van Benthem, Johan. "Belief Update as Social Choice." In Dynamic Formal Epistemology. Springer Netherlands, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0074-1_8.

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Conference papers on the topic "Epistemology of belief"

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Kim, Minsu, Sangryul Kim, and James Thorne. "From Evidence to Belief: A Bayesian Epistemology Approach to Language Models." In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-long.531.

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Souza, Marlo, and Renata Wassermann. "Hyperintensional Partial Meet Contractions." In 19th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning {KR-2022}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/kr.2022/34.

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Formal frameworks for Epistemology need to have enough logical structure to enable interesting conclusions regarding epistemic phenomena and to be expressive enough to model competing positions in the philosophical and logical literature. While beliefs are commonly accepted as hyperintensional attitudes, i.e., epistemic attitudes, which may differ even towards necessarily equivalent sentences, most work on standard epistemic logic has relied on idealised and intensional agents. This is particularly true in the area of AGM-inspired Belief Change. Although a few recent studies investigate hyperi

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Singeisen, Scott. "Disorienting Dilemmas: A Studio Model for Teaching Meaning-Making and Reflection in Action." In 2019 ACSA Teachers Conference. ACSA Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.teach.2019.24.

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The term meaning-making has been used in constructivist educational psychology to refer to the personal epistemology that persons create to help them to make sense of the influences, relationships and sources of knowledge in their world.1 According to the transformative learning theory of sociologist and educator Jack Mezirow, adults interpret the meaning of their experiences through a lens of deeply held assumptions.2 When students experience something that contradicts or challenges their way of negotiating the world they have to go through the transformative process of evaluating their assum

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"IMPLICIT EPISTEMOLOGY - THE BELIEFS OF STUDENTS OF EDUCATION SCIENCES." In 20th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2023). IADIS Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.33965/celda2023_202306l006.

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Kučera, Jiří. "Kierkegaard a Wittgenstein v harmonii s paradoxy současné epistemologie: víra a rozum v kvantové realitě." In DOKOR 2024. Medzinárodná interdisciplinárna doktorandská konferencia. VERBUM – vydavateľstvo Katolíckej univerzity v Ružomberku, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54937/2024.9788056111024.11-24.

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The aim of the article is, with reference to the still current and discussed problem of the relationship between reason and religious faith, to point out the surprising harmony of the philosophically intuitive positions of Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein, emphasizing the a-rationality of belief in an infinite God and in his 'absurd' incarnation into the 'finite', with the experimentally proven 'irrational' conclusions of modern quantum philosophy. Kierkegaard's emphasis on the subjectivity of belief in the 'absolute paradox' is in strong congruence with Wittgenstein's 'necessary silence' before t

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Kennedy, David. "Sticking Together: Merging Techniques for a Holistic Building Materials Pedagogy." In 112th ACSA Annual Meeting. ACSA Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.112.114.

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Building materials pedagogy can be mapped to a spectrum of student engagement types. At one end, students take a hands-on approach, and instruction comes in the form of haptic epistemology. At the opposite end of the spectrum, students rely on digital tools and data sets, gaining an understanding of materials as agents in a global resource and climate regime. The course described in this paper proposes a collapse of the spectrum, where haptic, local knowledge and data-driven, global knowledge come into alignment. It takes normative stick framing methods as a departure point for studying buildi

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Chanetsa, Tarisai, and Umesh Ramnarain. "DEVELOPMENT OF A LESSON OBSERVATION SCHEDULE TO DOCUMENT PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE FOR NATURE OF SCIENCE." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2022v1end064.

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"The study describes the development of a lesson observation schedule, to document Science teacher pedagogical content knowledge for nature of science (PCKNOS) and a subsequent pilot study to test the instrument. The objective of the study was to develop an observation schedule that could document enacted PCKNOS. NOS refers to the epistemology and sociology of science, science as a way of knowing and understanding the natural world, and the role of values and beliefs of the scientific community in the development of scientific knowledge (Lederman, 1998; Lederman and Lederman, 2004). Shulman (1

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Cziprok, Claudia daniela, Cristina Miron, and Florin Popescu. "CREATING AN INTEGRATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT USING CONCEPTUAL MAPS IN PHYSICS LESSONS." In eLSE 2013. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-13-195.

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We believe that Ausubel's cognitive learning theory provides a strong basis for improving teaching and learning. This work presents the combination of constructivist epistemology, Internet use and CmapTools, a software toolkit for building conceptual maps to deepen the concepts of "gas laws". Conceptual maps are a powerful tool not only for perception, representation and archiving of knowledge, but also to create new knowledge. It is essential to helping students understand that all concepts are somehow related to each other and to select cross-links as specific as possible and identify the mo

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