Essays about: "epistemic belief"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words epistemic belief.
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1. The Next Frontier: Enabling Sustainable Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa. : An empirical investigation on the drivers of sustainable entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan ecosystems, and the enablement of solutions for Grand Challenges.
University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella HandelshögskolanAbstract : Research Background: Climate change poses a core threat to the current and future welfare of society. Sub-Saharan Africa is particularly susceptible to challenges associated with climate change, most of which are bound to have large-scale societal impacts. READ MORE
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2. A Defense of the Permissibility of Prejudice
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierAbstract : This paper argues for the counter intuitive notion that some prejudice is morally justified. The argument is divided up into three parts: (1) what prejudice is, (2) the role of epistemology and (3) the final moral argument. The first section initially establishes a working definition which allows prejudice to be justified epistemically. READ MORE
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3. Why Induction, but not Deduction, is a Legitimate Source of Justified Aesthetic Belief
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetikAbstract : What, if any, kind of inferential reasoning can be a legitimate source of justified aesthetic belief? Looking at deductive and inductive reasoning respectively, this paper concludes that only the latter can be formulated so that there is reason to accept the premises as true and thus justify the conclusion. This follows from considerations about the type of generalisations that the arguments rely on. READ MORE
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4. Quality assessment and epistemic beliefs : If you tell me what you believe in, can I tell you what you’ll get?
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för naturvetenskapernas och matematikens didaktikAbstract : Bedömning av kvaliteten är en av de viktigaste processerna som en lärare utför varje arbetsdag för att kunna relatera elevernas prestationer mot ett kulturellt och individuellt anpassat betygssystem. Med ambitionen att främja jämställdhet och reliabilitet av bedömningar tillhandahåller Skolverket bedömningskrav och kriterier för att skilja olika grader av kvalitet (Selghed 2011). READ MORE
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5. True Belief at the End of the Tether : the Quest for Universal Epistemic Justification
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : In this thesis I scavenge the history of philosophy for answers to the question ‘How are claims to knowledge justified?’. I argue that Plato’s psychological doctrine of knowledge marks the starting point of a philosophical inquiry motivated by the possibility to discover foundations of knowledge through investigating the nature of mind. READ MORE
