A substantial share of recent semantic and epistemological debates is focused on the description analysis ways to defend thesis that changes in truth conditions knowledge claims enfold back subjective parameters. The broad popularity this - which runs contrary notion variation value independent informal factors a result belief it offers sustainable methodological framework for responding skepti...

the problem of good and bad in philosophy and theology can be discussed from two perspectives, ontological and epistemological. the problem that we're seeking to answer in this paper is that: does the theory of “al-idrakat al-i'tibariyah” (constructive perceptions) has presented a new solution for it?  if yes, which way it has used to deal with the problem (ontological or epistemologi...

During the fall 2001 semester 15 first-year undergraduates were interviewed about their informationseeking behavior. Undergraduates completed a short-answer questionnaire, the Measure of Epistemological Reflection, measuring their epistemological beliefs and searched the Web and an online public access catalog using tasks from the Reflective Judgment Interview that assessed their reflective jud...

The sciences are full of theories which, in the course of making detailed claims about the physical world, say things which entail that there are mathematical entities like numbers and sets. According to an influential tradition stemming from Quine (1948) and Putnam (1972), good scientific reasoning—induction, broadly construed—requires us to believe some such theory, or some disjunction of suc...

we show a lot of respect for science today. to back up our claims, we tend to appeal to scientific methods. it seems that we all agree that these methods are effective for gaining the truth. we can ask why science has its special status as a supplier of knowledge about our external world and our bodies. of course, one should not always trust what scientists say. nonetheless, epistemological jus...

David Lewis (1974, 1994/1999) proposed to reduce the facts about mental representation sensory evidence, dispositions act, and rationality. Recently, Robert Williams (2020) Adam Pautz (2021) have taken up developed Lewis's project in sophisticated novel ways. In this paper, we aim present, clarify, ultimately object core thesis that they all build their own views around. The different developme...

There is a continuing discussion on methodological pluralism in IS research. Several claims have been made both for and against methodological pluralism. The debate focuses mainly on discussing the relationship between research methods and IS research paradigms, especially positivism and interpretivism. Also, the literature analyzes the epistemological assumptions of research paradigms, but pay...