Sentences with phrase «on epistemic»

I'm all ears for arguments that claim to have the best, most reliable or valid approach to problems, but the achievement of objectivity tends to be a rhetorical device, often used in opposition to what are declared as non - objective / non-scientific arguments, rather than something which can be defended on epistemic grounds.

Thus, according to Zimmermann, the postmodernist critique of autonomous reason, including the notion of deconstruction itself, was foreshadowed in an important strand of early Reformation theology, one that puts an emphasis on epistemic humility as a corrective to the temptation to idolatry.

While it may very well be true that Heidegger sounds as if he is arguing for a pre-modern, pre-mechanized society, perhaps leaning toward a Luddite perspective, and while it also may appear that McLuhan is arguing for the continued evolution of technology that will enhance society, perhaps smacking of a full - blown techophilism, both theorists come together on the primary assertion that they make - technology has a profound and invisible shaping force on our epistemic values, perceptions of reality and truth, and cultural values and norms.

Of course a perspective on the epistemic situation of a given actual entity A is available from the perspective of another actual entity B in which A is objectified.

Not exact matches

I used to be something of a skeptic when it came to claims of «filter bubbles» — the sort of epistemic closure that comes from only seeing material you agree with on social platforms.

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.

«They need not take their truth claims on loan from some other intellectual or cultural quarter, or regard the only alternative to epistemic servitude as isolation from the broader human conversation about what is true.»

I approved of my atheism precisely on the grounds of epistemic progress, as if not seeing or believing in God signified a more incisive and capacious mind than did the faithful one.

According to the epistemological argument, on the ancestral chain model one can not have full - blown epistemic acts wherein a chain of reasoning in thought through and a conclusion drawn.

This becomes clear when Hartshorne continues in a vein that runs through realistic epistemic claims of any sort, including the Whiteheadian: «On the other hand, if what I have in present experience is not the past itself but a newly created substitute or image, then the door is open to solipsism of the present moment, and only arbitrary fiat will keep that door closed» (italics added).

[34] Bat - Ami Bar On, «Marginality and Epistemic Privilege,» in Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter, eds., Feminist Epistemologies (New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. 96 - 97.

There is something touching in the spectacle of this great scientist poised with rational saw in hand and tempted to sever the epistemic branch on which he had sat while making his great discoveries.

Our knowledge of God's truth is not just participatory and based on a receptive epistemic humility, it is also corporate.

Speaking to Citi News on the sidelines of an inaugural lecture at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences on the topic «the tyranny of foreign expertise: epistemic injustice in the global arena with impacts for Ghanaians» public health care, Dr. Badu Akosa said the development was greatly affecting scientific research on the continent.

«In my opinion, this is the first experiment to place significant bounds on the viability of an epistemic interpretation of the quantum state,» says Matthew Leifer at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada.

Knowing that the emergence of life on our planet is a cosmic miracle, is critical to transgressing the epistemic paradigm box that sees nature as a mere object to be exploited.

On the other hand, from the Multi-Institutional and Multidisciplinary Doctorate in Dissemination of Knowledge (DMMDC), located in Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), we work the triple theoretical, epistemological and methodological area which study the knowledge from their construction, translation and distribution processes, aiming at the understanding of languages, frameworks and processes specific to different disciplines with the aim of making these specific bases for the construction of the ballast of understanding inter / transdisciplinary and multi-referentiality, with the commitment of production and socialization of knowledge in open perspective to dialogue between these different disciplines / sciences, and other modes of knowledge organization, in order to make private knowledge of cognitive or epistemic communities in public.

For me, one of the most interesting aspects of Taleb's philosophy is his attack on «epistemic arrogance» and its application to value investment.

It focuses, therefore, on qualitative visual research that explores a range of intersections among, for example, filmmaking, photography, digital story telling, visual methodologies, epistemic justice, and social justice processes and interventions.

Recent publications include «Crafting Resonance: Empathy and Belonging in Ancient Rajasthan» (2015), «Decolonizing Archaeology: On the Global Heritage of Epistemic Laziness» (2015) and World Archaeological Congress Research Handbook on Postcolonial Archaeology (2010On the Global Heritage of Epistemic Laziness» (2015) and World Archaeological Congress Research Handbook on Postcolonial Archaeology (2010on Postcolonial Archaeology (2010).

There is a host of literature on the different concepts of probability and uncertainty — google «epistemic uncertainty» and you'll find lots.

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

Epistemic uncertainties, on the other hand, are due to the insufficiency our models, ignorance in our choice of parameters, inaccuracy of our measurements, or other remediable offenses.

There may be an «epistemic weighting» (as Judith Curry has suggested), but I would not put too much weight on that, since the «dangerous AGW» hypothesis is too broad for any one single expert to master in its entirety.

Individual who gets their climate information from talk radio Note: personally, I would rate an epistemic level of 1 on some of the topics, and level 2 on others.»

Their epistemic role is limited to discriminating the colors in the finished image, reading tables of numbers the computer used to assign them, and so on.

But denying the mechanism and origin of the greenhouse effect itself is frivolous, representing epistemic closure on a Dickmorrisian level.

In place of it, nothing but reams of some of thye best data I have yet encountered on the psychological trait of sometimes called «confirmation bias» or epistemic «seizing and freezing»....