This paper argues that vice-charging, the practice of charging other persons with epistemic vice, can itself be epistemically vicious. It identifies some potential vices vice-charging and knowledge people as a type is obstructed by vicious attributions vice. The hazards are illustrated reference to accusation parents who hesitate give their children MMR triple vaccine guilty gullibility dogmati...

Abstract Cultural competence is one of the most debated concepts in social work. Whilst some scholars view it as a central tenet work theory, practice and education, others critique new form racism even encourage its abandonment Amidst this fierce debate, article attempts to answer following question: How do we become entrapped by our own thinking when comes fostering or critiquing cultural rel...

The relevance of the concept ‘Intolerance of Ambiguity’ within the field of humour has been investigated. It is predicted that intolerant people prefer jokes whose incongruity is solvable whilst rejecting the non-solvable nonsense jokes. Subjects were 134 male students who were asked to complete questionnaires and to rate 120 jokes according to the criteria ‘Funniness’ and ‘Rejection’. Both hyp...

Most activities of Islamic propagation (da’wah) focus on a conventional method normative teaching that may result in fanaticism and dogmatism. However, da’wah activity should be also inclusive attentive to the context where it is held. The purpose this article describe, analyze, interpret social carried out by Sayid Ahmad could create religious harmony tolerance Tulungagung, East Java. Based th...

Skepticism about moral responsibility is one of the most elaborated approaches to this important phenomenon in contemporary philosophical literature. In paper, I use skeptical approach general, and specific arguments particular, clarify connections between conditions an appropriate attribution re­sponsibility structural elements attitude. A distinction made dogmatism a critical morality, classi...

Literature, like other art forms, has always served an instrument for resistance, which through various discursive strategies responds to manifestations of oppression, despotism and dogmatism kinds. Above all, 20th century literary production — a that witnessed proliferation dictatorships authoritarian regimes, armed conflicts, wars genocides, despite humanity's extraordinary progress in multip...

Abstract Why are mistaken beliefs about COVID-19 so prevalent? Political identity, education and other demographic variables explain only part of the differences between people in their susceptibility to misinformation. This paper focuses on another explanation: epistemic vice. Epistemic vices character traits that interfere with acquiring, maintaining, transmitting knowledge. If basic assumpti...

Leo Strauss is well known for his thesis that there an irreconcilable conflict between philosophy and “revelation,” i.e. monotheistic revealed religion, which cannot be harmonized. The philosopher qua a believer, while the believer philosopher. However, it less widely recognized Strauss’ thought about religion as fundamental alternative to follows two divergent trajectories. first emphasizes un...