Focus on … Epistemology

Improving learning and teaching in early childhood teacher education: A focus on personal epistemology

A growing body of research about personal epistemological beliefs has provided tertiary educators with evidence to inform strategies in promoting eff ective teaching and learning. Personal epistemological beliefs refer to an individual’s beliefs about the nature of knowing and knowledge and are considered to infl uence how one engages in teaching and learning experiences. Th ere has been very l...

Genetic Epistemology and Naturalized Epistemology

When I started studying philosophy at the lycée , the very first book that I read happened to be Piaget’s Sagesse et illusions de la philosophie. I hated it. It explained that philosophy can, to some extent, keep its traditional role of searching for wisdom in the practical domain, but that it is no better than poetry when it tries to say things about the nature of the world, and even when it s...

Pollock on Probability in Epistemology

John Pollock did a lot of interesting and important work on the metaphysics and epistemology of probability over several decades. In Thinking About Acting [15], we find many fascinating and thought provoking ideas and arguments (both old and new) about probability. Owing to limitations of space, I will be confining my remarks to a handful of issues addressed in [15] pertaining to probability, l...

Basic Considerations on Epistemology ( 1937 )

| The doctrines of knowledge a priori and of exclusive empirism [ausschließender Empirismus] oppose each other in the epistemological discussion. The a priori view is characterized by the claim that we are in possession of certain pieces of knowledge, being originally contained in reason although coming to actuality only through stimulation by sensation, that can be expressed in the form of gen...

Recent Work on Virtue Epistemology