Practical reasoning and degrees of outright belief
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-021-03153-0
Abstract: According to a suggestion by Williamson (Knowledge and its limits, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 99), outright belief comes in degrees: one has a high/low degree of belief iff one is willing to rely on… read more here.
Keywords: knowledge; reasoning degrees; outright belief; degrees outright ... See more keywords
Mentor teachers' practical reasoning about intervening during student teachers' lessons
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2018.07.004
Abstract: Abstract In this exploratory study, we analyzed mentor teachers' (MTs') reasoning about whether, when, and how to intervene during student teachers' (STs') lessons. We applied Fenstermacher's theory on practical arguments and found that MTs intervene… read more here.
Keywords: teachers practical; practical reasoning; mentor teachers; student teachers ... See more keywords
The ethics of practical reasoning—exploring the terrain
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DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2016.1278524
Abstract: ABSTRACT Social work has been under sustained scrutiny regarding the quality of decision-making. The assumption is that social workers make poor quality decisions. And yet our knowledge and understanding of how social workers make decisions… read more here.
Keywords: work; practice; social work; decision making ... See more keywords
Précis of Practical Shape
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DOI: 10.1080/13869795.2020.1767903
Abstract: In Practical Shape, I give an account of practical reasoning whose main purpose is simply to convince people that there is, or at least can be, such a thing. Practical reasoning is reasoning whose conclusion… read more here.
Keywords: practical shape; practical reasoning; consideration; reason ... See more keywords
Reasoning to action
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DOI: 10.1080/13869795.2020.1767908
Abstract: Aristotle’s suggestion that we can equally reason from our current beliefs to action as we can to a new belief (EN 1147a26-31; DMA 701a18-23) finds support from a number of important philosophers during the second… read more here.
Keywords: belief; one ought; reason; practical reasoning ... See more keywords