Sentences with phrase «by epistemic»

Yet many human problems thwart expectations required by epistemic norms of the sciences that determine when to publish conclusions about cause and effect.

It need not be obeyed, and the justification of disobedience in this case is not a special kind of expertise guaranteed by epistemic privilege but rather by the demands of justice.

Not exact matches

The project of natural theology, seeking what can be known of God by the light of reason alone, was abandoned and left for dead by many scholars in mid-century, assumed to be a victim of either positivism or epistemic relativism.

I have concluded that the experience of CE does not in itself have objective epistemic significance, because whether it is reliable is an open question and it is not self - justifying Furthermore even if taking the experience of CE as veridical is justified systematically by the direct perception underwritten by prehension, nevertheless the sense in which such direct perception is reliable is epistemically disappointing, since it is external to the subject and does not necessarily involve any propositional knowledge on its part.

Plantinga plays «defense» because he is an adherent of a popular epistemic perspective — affirmed by many theists and nontheists alike — that maintains that defense is all that is required with respect to beliefs formed the way Plantinga contends that belief in God is formed for most «intellectually sophisticated adult theists» (FP 3: 312).

It implies that there is no rational basis for voting for either candidate — that voting for one or the other is just the effect of how you have been (passively) formed by your environment — that there is no such thing as individual deliberation or political persuasion, just epistemic and behavioral determinism.

Although the empowerment of its own members is an important goal for every marginalized social group, by claiming an authority based in epistemic privilege the group reinscribes the values and practices used to socially marginalize it by excluding its voice, silencing it and commanding its obedience to the voice of the dominant group.

Does cyberspace become an icon that lifts us to God or an idol that pulls us away from God by its invisible epistemic ruptures in our rationalities?

By careful «epistemic correlation,» he seeks to bring these two elements or realms of discourse together as a basis for belief in God.

This second aspect of feeling's epistemic role can best be brought out by reference to Bradley's essay «What Is The Real Julius Caesar?»

And can a Christian scholar offer any sort of «epistemic paddle,» that is, any assurance that human knowledge can attain absolute truth, without at least implying that such knowledge must be checked and completed by revelation?

Such thinking leads to or supports things like far - right Hindu nationalism, for example, or absurd claims that epistemic violence is the same or worse (as Spivak once famously claimed) than actual violence, or harmful rejections of science, or the very essentialism denied by its proponents.

If the referendum educates the public in the power of their voice, and if it educates masses and elites to expand their moral imagination enough to recognize the complaints of the other side, this experiment, although probably not the best outcome, has the epistemic value desired by proponents of deliberation, and its long - term effect may be more electoral stability and a renewed aversion to change for the sake of change.

shows many are tempted into an epistemic comedy by seductive stats illusions, bad causology, and lax jargon.

Epistemic Games Simulations created by the University of Wisconsin at Madison's Epistemic Games research group.

By providing teachers with opportunities and support to negotiate different social - epistemic roles through wikis and related Web 2.0 tools, they may develop a more situated and robust knowledge of digital epistemologies and a much better sense of the social construction of knowledge more generally.

By adopting epistemic disobedience as a conceptual framework, I argue that Fallism can be constructed as an emergent theory generated through a dual process of de-linking and performative pedagogy.

By employing contemporary art as a medium for the production of knowledge and education and presenting it along with objects of visual culture, the initiative seeks to open up an experimental sphere of activity for the epistemic value of images and objects within the university.

Ravetz argues that there is a new class of epistemic problems that are dominated by uncertainty in the context of social and ethical concerns.

Considering that a null hypothesis is usually couched in a frequentist setting, I find it not really surprising that eyebrows are reaised when we try to explain it by turning to the epistemic mode.

If by consensus, we mean something that carries epistemic information, something that weighs into our assessment of the truth of a thing, counting papers isn't going to be the route.

«If by consensus, we mean something that carries epistemic information, something that weighs into our assessment of the truth of a thing...» Hang on.

The «epistemic status of climate models» is the knowledge - value, the degree to which we assign certainty or «knowledge» (or lack of knowledge, ignorance) to the information returned by Climate Models.

To grade individuals by their «epistemic levels» seems to me to be a distraction from the issue that is of importance to the people of the world.

Moreover, the devices of such corruption are sophisticated and often function indirectly, by infiltrating the terms of ethical and epistemic argument.»