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Fleming, Chris 1970, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, and Faculty of Social Inquiry. "Theoria : performance and epistemology." THESIS_FSI_XXX_Fleming_C.xml, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/407.

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What might it mean to attempt to figure theatre as thought? More specifically, what possible relations hold between theatre and epistemology - that area of philosophy concerned with theories of knowledge? This study is a series of cross-disciplinary engagements that seek to articulate some of the relations between theatre, performance, and epistemology, to investigate performance as a 'deployed logic' in relation to those disciplines concerned with discovering and generating knowledge. For some thinkers in the continental tradition, the very thought of writing about the relations between perfo

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Gordon, Emma Catherine. "Understanding in contemporary epistemology." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6408.

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My main aim is to contribute to the exploration of the nature of the epistemic state of understanding. It seems that the most productive way in which this might be done is by (i) investigating what sort of conditions must be fulfilled in order for one to understand, and (ii) comparing understanding’s place in certain contemporary debates to the place that knowledge has in those debates. Regarding conditions for understanding, I will argue that there are two types of understanding that are most relevant to epistemology—objectual understanding and atomistic understanding. I will contend that ato

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Ryg, Matthew A. "Toward Better Knowledge: A Social Epistemology of Pragmatic Nonviolence." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1034.

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The dissertation takes as its central problem the priority and value of nonviolent and pragmatic social epistemology. Many concede the desirability of nonviolent problem solving, but quickly and unreflectively assent to violence when the imagination fails to procure viable alternatives. Moreover, the kind and quality of knowledge gained through the use of nonviolence, it is argued, is far superior to the kind and quality of knowledge gained through the use of violence. This dissertation attempts to settle the discussion of the priority and value of nonviolence as a social epistemology by ar

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Smith, Joshua A. "A relevant alternatives analysis of knowledge." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1148869371.

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Fleming, Christopher J. "Theoria : performance and epistemology /." [Richmond, N.S.W.] : University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 1999. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030527.091228/index.html.

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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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Tor, Shaul. "Mortal and divine in early Greek epistemology." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609583.

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Eck, David Alexander. "The Encultured Mind: From Cognitive Science to Social Epistemology." Scholar Commons, 2015. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5472.

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There have been monumental advances in the study of the social dimensions of knowledge in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. But it has been common within a wide variety of fields--including social philosophy, cognitive science, epistemology, and the philosophy of science--to approach the social dimensions of knowledge as simply another resource to be utilized or controlled. I call this view, in which other people's epistemic significance are only of instrumental value, manipulationism. I identify manipulationism, trace its manifestations in the aforementioned fields, and exp

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Wright, Christopher Robert. "An explanation of knowledge and its relation to some problems in contemporary epistemology." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385469.

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Bin, Che Mentri Mohd Khairul Anam. "Avicenna on knowledge." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31234.

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This thesis presents the first scholarly attempt to provide a systematic study—by way of rational reconstruction—of Avicenna’s philosophical analysis of knowledge. The analysis is centred on the well-known but ill-researched epistemic notions of apprehension (taṣawwur) and judgement (taṣdīq) that Avicenna consistently claims to be the necessary and sufficient conditions for anyone to be regarded as having knowledge. The study, however, begins with an account of Avicenna’s philosophical programme and its primary philosophical assumption, namely, his metaphysical realism. I argue that this assum

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Gilman, Todd Nathaniel. "Communicative Action as Feminist Epistemology." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4906.

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This thesis proposes that feminist social and political theory adopt the epistemology inherent in Jurgen Habermas's communicative ethics in order to more coherently work toward the goal of freeing individuals from social oppression. This thesis first examines the fundamental differences that exist between the particular claims for knowledge made by the three major schools of feminist theory; the empirical feminists, the standpoint feminists, and those allied with postmodernism. After illuminating the specifics of these feminist claims, the conception of knowledge central to Habermas's thought

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Antonova, Antonia Ivo. "Finding Truth in Literature." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/992.

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This thesis uses Amy Kind’s defense of epistemic relevance in imagination to examine how and when true beliefs imparted in literary imaginings are justified as knowledge. I will show that readers’ literary imaginings must pass a test of epistemic relevance, as well as be paired with a strong affirming emotional response in order to justify the truth behind the beliefs they impart. I believe the justificatory affective response is a kind of non-propositional emotional imagining, distinct from the type of literary imaginings that initially imparted the beliefs. Due to this thesis’ focus on the j

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Gouveia, Gleidson. "Philosophy and No child left behind: an epistemological analysis of the effects of educational policy on knowledge development." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1844.

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The purpose of the study was to identify teacher perception regarding the effects of NCLB on the development of knowledge among elementary school students in two school districts in a Midwestern state. I applied a case-study design to address the research questions, with data obtained from interviews with eight experienced school teachers, who reported on the state of the cognitive development of their students. Epistemology, specifically social and virtue epistemology, served as the theoretical framework for the analysis of the data, thus filling a gap in the literature for an epistemological

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Moeller, Emil Frederik Lundbjerg. "Defeasible knowledge." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3cd10e1c-e6d1-44f6-b9b0-d94bba6f644b.

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This dissertation collects five papers that discuss potential consequences of the defeasibility of knowledge. Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 5 provide arguments for a number of important epistemological consequences of the defeasibility of knowledge. Chapter 4 discusses consequences that others have claimed the defeasibility of knowledge to have. Chapter 1 argues that closure principles for knowledge are in tension with the defeasibility of knowledge. Chapter 2 argues that one of Williamson's famous arguments against the KK principle relies in a problematic way on a closure principle that is incompatib

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McBride, Mark. "Immediate knowledge and conditions on knowledge." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bcb5f460-b8b5-4fcd-a857-9f8e2e730647.

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This thesis explores two sets of issues in contemporary epistemology. The first part explores issues surrounding the category of basic knowledge (or justification) – that is, at a first-pass, knowledge (or justification) which is immediate, in the sense that one’s justification for the known proposition doesn’t rest on any justification for believing other propositions. The second part investigates issues surrounding knowledge-closure and various conditions – namely, conclusive reasons, sensitivity, and safety – which some philosophers have claimed are necessary for knowledge. Each part of the

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Fritz, James Christopher. "Knowledge and the Many Norms on Action." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu156268632958823.

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Dive, Lisa Lehrer. "An Epistemic Structuralist Account of Mathematical Knowledge." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17692.

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This thesis aims to explain the nature and justification of mathematical knowledge using an epistemic version of mathematical structuralism, that is a hybrid of Aristotelian structuralism and Hellman’s modal structuralism. Structuralism, the theory that mathematical entities are recurring structures or patterns, has become an increasingly prominent theory of mathematical ontology in the later decades of the twentieth century. The epistemically driven version of structuralism that is advocated in this thesis takes structures to be primarily physical, rather than Platonically abstract entities.

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Broncano-Berrocal, Fernando. "Luck and the control theory of knowledge." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/129460.

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This thesis presents a diagnosis of the problem of luck in epistemology and an analysis of the concept of knowledge. Part I gives an account of the ordinary concept of luck. Part II gives an account of the philosophical notion of epistemic luck and develops an original account of the concept of knowledge: the control theory of knowledge<br>Aquesta tesi presenta un diagnòstic del problema de la sort en epistemologia i una anàlisi del concepte de coneixement. La primera part ofereix una teoria del concepte ordinari de sort. La segona part ofereix una teoria de la noció filosòfica de sort epis

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Byrne-Armstrong, Hilary. "Dead certainties and local knowledge : postculturalism, conflict and narrative practices in radical/experiential education." Thesis, [Richmond, N.S.W.] : Faculty of Social Inquiry, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/563.

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This thesis documents the development of a narrative epistemology and an associated pedagogic practice around the conflicts that occur in experiential learning settings. The thesis traces a progressive shift away from individualistic accounts of conflicts and dilemmas in learning being primarily embedded in psychological spaces, to a recognition of the importance of the social space - the cultural discourses that shape our everyday activity and interactions. This recognises that conflict is not simply a consequence of difference arising from personality, or other psychological factors, but a c

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Ruiz, Andres C. "Evolutionary Debunking Arguments and Their Challenges to Human Knowledge." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1366735577.

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Bucciarelli, Karina. "A Feminist Epistemological Framework: Preventing Knowledge Distortions in Scientific Inquiry." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1365.

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This thesis explores what to have distorted scientific knowledge claims due to socially constructed conceptions of gender. Using the paradigm example of the explanation of human fertilization misrepresenting knowledge as it maps on stereotypes about the passive female and the active male onto the scientific participation of the egg and the sperm. Exploring arguments presented by feminist epistemologists, I argue that in order to produce knowledge free of distortions due to problematic social conceptions we must engage in a specific epistemological framework with three main components: 1) criti

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Habgood-Coote, Joshua. "Knowledge-how : linguistic and philosophical considerations." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11566.

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This thesis concerns the nature of knowledge-how, in particular the question of how we ought to combine philosophical and linguistic considerations to understand what it is to know how to do something. Part 1 concerns the significance of linguistic evidence. In chapter 1, I consider the range of linguistic arguments that have been used in favour of the Intellectualist claim that knowledge-how is a species of propositional knowledge. Chapter 2 considers the idea that sentences of the form ‘S knows how to V' involve a free relative complement, and the relation between this claim and the Objectua

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Cooley, Daniel W. "The relevance of an Edwardsean critique of Enlightenment epistemology for postmodernity." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1162.

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Gerber, Chad Tyler. "Virtue epistemology in redemptive historical perspective a short conversation between philosophy and theology regarding the nature of knowledge /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Dewhurst, Therese. "Take my word for it: a new approach to the problem of sincerity in the epistemology of testimony." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002837.

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The epistemological problem of sincerity in testimony is often approached in the following way: We, as a matter of fact, accept utterances as sincere. We do so in the face of knowledge that people lie and deceive,and yet we still count these beliefs as good beliefs. Therefore there must be some reason or argument that we can cite in order to justify our acceptance of the sincerity of the speaker. In this thesis I will argue, contra this, that there is no reason, per se, that justifies our of a speakers sincerity: this is because recognition of the obligation to accept the sincerity is a necess

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Hudson-Humphrey, Jake. "Mystical Experience and Epistemic Injustice." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2037.

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In this paper, we explore mystical experiences and knowledge through the application of Miranda Fricker's framework of epistemic injustice. Focusing on experiences in which the usual division between Self and Other temporarily dissolves (brought about spontaneously, through contemplative or religious practice, or through the ingestion of psychedelics), we examine the knowledge gained from these experiences in its multiple forms and discuss how the mystic, when attempting to share the knowledge she has gained, may face challenges to effective testimonial exchange which constitute testimonial in

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Markey, Bren April. "Feminist methodologies in moral philosophy." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9107.

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This thesis develops a critique of the methodology of mainstream academic moral philosophy, based on insights from feminist and more generally anti-oppressive political thought. The thesis consists of two parts. In the first, I loosely characterise a certain dominant methodology of philosophy, one based on giving an important epistemological role to existing, 'pre-theoretical' moral attitudes, such as intuitions. I then argue that such methodologies may be critiqued on the basis of theories that identify these moral attitudes as problematically rooted in oppressive social institutions, such as

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Vlerick, Michael Marie Patricia Lucien Hilda. "Darwin's doubt : implications of the theory of evolution for human knowledge." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71595.

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Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation I enquire into the status, scope and limits of human knowledge, given the fact that our perceptual and cognitive faculties are the product of evolution by natural selection. I argue that the commonsense representations these faculties provide us with yield a particular, species-specific scope on the world that does not ‘correspond’ in any straightforward way to the external world. We are, however, not bound by these commonsense representations. This particular, species-specific view of the world can b

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Carreras, Carla. "L'herència deweyana: la Philosophy for Children de Matthew Lipman i les bases del coneixement." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7823.

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L'objectiu d'aquest treball s'emmarca dintre del que tradicionalment s'ha anomenat teoria del coneixement, perquè pretén examinar alguns conceptes bàsics que fonamenten i participen en el procés de coneixement. Tot això, des duna perspectiva clarament pragmatista i, més específicament, deweyana.<br/>Optar per una perspectiva clarament deweyana suposa una reformulació de nocions tradicionalment emprades per la filosofia en general i per la teoria del coneixement en particular. Els primers conceptes afectats són els de "filosofia" i "coneixement", que hauran de ser reconstruïts.<br/>Però si la n

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Norström, Per. "Technological knowledge and technology education." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Filosofi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-144875.

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Technological knowledge is of many different kinds, from experience-based know-how in the crafts to science-based knowledge in modern engineering. It is inherently oriented towards being useful in technological activities, such as manufacturing and engineering design. The purpose of this thesis is to highlight special characteristics of technological knowledge and how these affect how technology should be taught in school. It consists of an introduction, a summary in Swedish, and five papers: Paper I is about rules of thumb, which are simple instructions, used to guide actions toward a specifi

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Rabinowitz, Dani Wayne. "Knowledge by way of prophecy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5e700789-8a47-40c3-bcd0-6720f7e60be1.

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This thesis investigates whether beliefs acquired by way of prophecy are safe. By ‘prophecy’ I have in mind the presentation of the prophetic method as found in the Guide of the Perplexed, which was Moses Maimonides’ philosophical masterpiece. And by ‘safe’ I have in mind the work by Timothy Williamson on the safety condition for knowledge. Both authors have proven to be dominant forces on these respective topics. The significance of this investigation derives from the centrality of prophecy to the three monotheistic religions. My main goal in this thesis is to identify those safety risks asso

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Cho, Sunwoo. "Cognitive Transformation as a Value of Art: A Study of the Cognitive Value of Art." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/202128.

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Philosophy<br>Ph.D.<br>Art has been thought of as a source of cognitive value that might contribute to the survival and the enrichment of human life by providing us with knowledge about and insight into our world. The cognitive value of art, understood generally in terms of the provision of knowledge, has been discussed by many philosophers who have focused on issues concerning the means by which knowledge is acquired in the arts and the range of knowledge that art is able to provide. However, in focusing on knowledge as the end-product of art, philosophers have tended to neglect the subjectiv

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Miranda, Gustavo Alexandre de. "Por um conhecimento transdisciplinar: reflexões, trilhas e entraves." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-07022012-151427/.

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O objetivo do trabalho é revisitar o tema da produção e difusão do conhecimento, enfatizando, por um lado, os limites epistemológicos já instalados (de características cartesianas e mecanicistas) e, por outro, a fecundidade de algumas propostas inter e transdisciplinares que, fundamentadas em premissas diferentes, vêm há décadas problematizando a noção de epistemologia e, por conseguinte, contribuindo para reinventar e articular o conhecimento. Com o intuito de explorar tais questões, propusemos, num primeiro momento, algumas reflexões gerais a partir de Japiassu (2009), Morin (1998; 2007; 200

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Acar, Zeliha Burcu. "The Underground Man Of The 19th Century: A Comparative Study On Nietzsche And Marx." Phd thesis, METU, 2013. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615674/index.pdf.

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In this thesis I searched for an Underground Man in Nietzsche and Marx. My search depends on an epistemological ascertainment. Kant&rsquo<br>s argument that the human mind cannot achieve knowledge of the thing-in-itself lies in the background of my thesis. I think that this argument is connected with the origins of modern philosophy. My thesis is concentrated on the 19th century. I perceived that with Kant&rsquo<br>s argument the fact that we can know this world within a subjective framework is emphasized especially in this century. The emphasis on a subjective framework is grounded on Kant&rs

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Bohlin, Henrik. "Groundless knowledge : a Humean solution to the problem of skepticism." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Almquist & Wiksell, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb370669862.

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Ozer, Husnu. "Scientific Realism Debate In The Philosophy Of Science." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12611579/index.pdf.

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The primary concern of this piece of work is to reconsider scientific realism debate in the philosophy of science. Accordingly, the overall aim is to come up with the clues of a viable scientific realist attitude in the face of anti-realist interpretations of scientific theories. To accomplish this aim, I make use of two modified versions of scientific realism, that is, &lsquo<br>epistemic structural realism&rsquo<br>and &lsquo<br>entity realism&rsquo<br>. Epistemic structural realism is a realist position of which proponents claim that the only knowable part of the reality is the structure of

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Holmlund, Erik. "Conceivability and Possibility : Counterfactual Conditionals as Modal Knowledge?" Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för psykologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160728.

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Hur har vi kunskap om vad som är möjligt? Enligt vad som kan betraktas som det traditionella svaret till den frågan, har vi kunskap om modalitet via föreställningsbarhet. Vi föreställer oss ting och tar sedan detta som bevis för möjlighet. Denna uppsats kommer att undersöka tre invändningar till detta svar angående hur vi har kunskap om möjlighet. Vi kommer sedan att överväga Williamsons förmodan: att vår kognitiva kapacitet för att hantera kontrafaktiska konditionaler bär med sig den kognitiva kapaciteten för oss att även hantera metafysisk modalitet (2007, 136), och undersöka om denna förmod

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Hale, Evan L. "Knowledge, Truth, and the Challenge of Revisability: A Critique of Actor-Network Theory." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1333733604.

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Joakim, Olsson. "Knowledge, truth and the life-affirming ideal in Nietzsche’s perspectivism." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-340449.

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Srinivasan, Amia Parvathi. "The fragile state : essays on luminosity, normativity and metaphilosophy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:23b7a5c9-448d-421b-b26c-5cae3591aee3.

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This dissertation is a set of three essays connected by the common theme of our epistemic fragility: the way in which our knowledge – of our own minds, of whether we are in violation of the epistemic and ethical norms, and of the philosophical truths themselves – is hostage to forces outside our control. The first essay, “Are We Luminous?”, is a recasting and defence of Timothy Williamson’s argument that there are no non-trivial conditions such that we are in a position to know we are in them whenever we are in them. Crucial to seeing why Williamson’s anti-luminosity argument succeeds, pace va

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Stevick, Travis M. "Kata physin : a critical exploration of the epistemology of T.F. Torrance as it relates to the philosophy of theological and natural science." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7791.

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According to T. F. Torrance, all authentic knowledge involves the nature of the object impressing its inherent rationality on our minds. Consequently, knowledge involves thinking in accordance with the nature of the object given for thought. Given that this epistemological position is not presuppositionless, we shall explore the place and function of "ultimate beliefs" in Torrance's epistemology, as well as the question as to whether such beliefs imply a retreat to either foundationalism or fideism. The inescapability of ultimate beliefs in all human knowledge requires a shift in the

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Ferrador, Tiago Mathyas. "Prospectos do empirismo atual: uma análise crítica dos empirismos construtivo, estrutural, contextual e social, e a defesa de uma proposta empirista para a teoria social." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-25022019-115902/.

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A princípio, esta investigação versa sobre as teorias empiristas contemporâneas a partir do programa empirista estabelecido pelo filósofo da ciência Bas van Fraassen, a partir da década de 1980. Assim, o nosso problema de pesquisa parte do referido autor, em seus pontos fortes e fracos, para realizarmos um diálogo com concepções empiristas atualmente em desenvolvimento: o empirismo contextual crítico de Helen Longino e empirismo social de Miriam Solomon. Depois, traçamos um panorama da discussão entre filósofos e sociólogos da ciência, abrangendo o empirismo lógico e as várias propostas dentro

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Baker-Hytch, Max. "Reformed Epistemology and naturalistic explanations of religious belief : an inquiry into the epistemological implications of the cognitive science of religion." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:74c7b127-cf27-4939-9e32-5341465e02a8.

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Reformed Epistemology is an influential view in contemporary philosophy of religion, according to which theistic beliefs that are the product of our native, non-inferential cognitive faculties often constitute knowledge if God exists. My aim in this thesis is to ascertain whether Reformed Epistemology is viable in light of contemporary scientific explanations of the mechanisms of religious belief- formation, especially the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR). I argue for a qualified “yes.” To begin with, I attempt to carefully reconstruct and scrutinise some currently popular “debunking argume

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Crow, Frederick W. IV. "The False Appeal of Middle Knowledge: A Critique of Alvin Plantinga’s Commitment to Counterfactuals of Freedom." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou159183292305403.

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Marin, Garcia Alvaro. "Theoretical Hedging: The Scope of Knowledge in Translation Process Research." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1497014365117773.

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Melanson, William Jason. "Justified existential belief an investigation of the justifiability of believing in the existence of abstract mathematical objects /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1140465070.

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Baiardi, Daniel Cerqueira. "Conhecimento, evolução e complexidade na filosofia sintética de Herbert Spencer." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-10022009-125210/.

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Esta dissertação é um estudo da doutrina evolucionária do gradual desenvolvimento da mente de Herbert Spencer, em especial como aparece na terceira parte de seus Principles of Psychology: General Synthesis (1855). Atenção é dada aos princípios epistemológicos basilares do seu sistema da Filosofia Sintética, assim como os conceitos de complexidade, estrutura, função e teleologia, em sua concepção evolucionista pré-darwiniana. Examinam-se também alguns debates em que se envolveu Spencer nesse período vitoriano<br>This thesis is a study of the evolutionary doctrine of gradual development of the m

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Tanswell, Fenner Stanley. "Proof, rigour and informality : a virtue account of mathematical knowledge." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10249.

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This thesis is about the nature of proofs in mathematics as it is practiced, contrasting the informal proofs found in practice with formal proofs in formal systems. In the first chapter I present a new argument against the Formalist-Reductionist view that informal proofs are justified as rigorous and correct by corresponding to formal counterparts. The second chapter builds on this to reject arguments from Gödel's paradox and incompleteness theorems to the claim that mathematics is inherently inconsistent, basing my objections on the complexities of the process of formalisation. Chapter 3 look

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Bignell, B. "Musical utterance as a way of knowing : a contemporary epistemology of music." Thesis, View thesis, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/344.

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This thesis takes its start from the identification of a gap in knowledge between the act of musical utterance and its significance for human being. Based on the proposition that music education could benefit from what it most appears to lack, a deep epistemology, the study first examines the knowledge gap as an epistemological omission in music curriculum and discourse, and then argues the case for retrieval of a logos epistemology to rectify the omission. The recovery of the meaning of the musical act, it is argued, is an ethical, biographical initiative taken up by the individual who senses

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Shew, Ashley. "Beaver Dams, Spider Webs, and the Sticky Wicket: An Investigation On What Counts as Technology and What Counts as Knowledge." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32812.

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Philosophers of technology have often considered only the tools and processes used and conducted by humans, but natural structures and man-made structures are not always easily discernable from one another. The complexity of a spider web is not matched by many human-made technologies. Beaver dams, beehives, and ant hills are great creations made by non-human animals. Davis Baird has argued that our scientific instruments bear knowledge in important ways, and the idea of technological knowledge bears interestingly on discussions of natural artifacts. Baird thinks his argument for instruments b

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