for e-Book ONLY!) Researchers usually work and evolve in the scientific frameworks in which they were trained, without questioning their epistemological foundations. However, this may be required when researchers coming from different disciplines and paradigms try to work together on the same object of study. This chapter reflects on epistemological encounters in a five-year project of multidis...

This article examines the role of language as a key metaphor and medium occult sociality among contemporary Western astrologers. I argue that ‘symbolic language’ attributed to celestial objects patterns informs everyday speech acts reinforces shared commitments authority astrological tradition, in relative absence conventional structures belief belonging. At same time, flexibility versatility h...

Bayesian epistemology tells us with great precision how we should move from prior to posterior beliefs in light of new evidence or information, but says little about where our prior beliefs come from. It o¤ers few resources to describe some prior beliefs as rational or well-justi…ed, and others as irrational or unreasonable. A di¤erent strand of epistemology takes the central epistemological qu...

Some Bayesians have suggested that beliefs based on ambiguous or incomplete evidence are best represented by families of probability functions. I spend the first half of this essay outlining one version of this imprecise model of belief , and spend the second half defending the model against recent objections, raised by Roger White and others, which concern the phenomenon of probabilistic dilat...

Since Pascal introduced the idea of mathematical probability in the 17th century discussions of uncertainty and “rational” belief have been dogged by philosophical and technical disputes. Furthermore, the last quarter century has seen an explosion of new questions and ideas, stimulated by developments in the computer and cognitive sciences. Competing ideas about probability are often driven by ...

The aim of this study was to modeling structural relationship between epistemological beliefs qualities of school life with academic achievement. Correlation research was based on the structural equation modeling technique, specifically regression equations (combining path analysis and factor analysis of the second level). The statistical population consisted of all boys of the first year of se...

This article reports findings from a study that examines the factors which influence early childhood and care (ECEC) career teachers’ confidence in teaching Religious Education (RE) how it impacts their of RE Catholic primary schools Western Australia. Teachers’ is teacher’s belief ability to accomplish goal refers strength belief. Research this area has shown correlated with sense efficacy res...