Stance empiricism and epistemic reason
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1539-0
Abstract: Some versions of empiricism have been accused of being neither empirically confirmable nor analytically true and therefore meaningless or unknowable by their own lights. Carnap, and more recently van Fraassen, have responded to this objection… read more here.
Keywords: epistemic reason; empiricism epistemic; stance empiricism; empiricism ... See more keywords
Education and philosophy in R. F. Holland’s Against Empiricism: A reassessment
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DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2017.1396212
Abstract: Abstract In his 1980 book Against Empiricism: On Education, Epistemology and Value, British philosopher R. F. Holland (1923–2013) exposes the inadequacies of a philosophy of education originating from an empiricist worldview. By following Plato’s view… read more here.
Keywords: education philosophy; holland; empiricism; philosophy ... See more keywords
Self‐Knowledge and Rational Agency: A Defense of Empiricism
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DOI: 10.1111/phpr.12288
Abstract: How does one know one's own beliefs, intentions, and other attitudes? Many responses to this question are broadly empiricist, in that they take self-knowledge to be epistemically based in empirical justification or warrant. Empiricism about… read more here.
Keywords: rational agency; self knowledge; empiricism self; empiricism ... See more keywords