Three years of graduating business honors cohorts in a large urban university were sampled to determine whether the introduction of ubiquitous laptop computers into the honors program contributed to student achievement, student satisfaction and constructivist teaching activities. The first year cohort consisted of honors students who did not have laptops; the second and third year cohorts were ...

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...

How can social epistemology (SE) be characterized so that all of these topics fit under its umbrella? Why does each topic qualify as epistemology and in what respects is it social? This paper begins by proposing a tripartite division of SE. Under this classification scheme the first variety of SE is highly continuous with traditional epistemology, whereas the second and third varieties diverge ...

The paper deals with the impact of smart technologies on cognitive and educational activities assesses role education in cognition from semiotics epistemology. authors article consider smart-technologies as modern information various profiles, developed mainly for performance semiotic epistemological functions person its maximum possible replacement different areas life. notes that when evaluat...

Over the past several decades, increasing overlap has emerged between projects in mainstream epistemology and corresponding projects in the philosophy of education. This is no doubt in part because epistemology’s focus has broadened far beyond the post-Gettier project of analysing propositional knowledge; front and centre on the contemporary epistemological agenda are philosophical problems ass...