Why did nineteenth-century German historians and physicists habitually warn against vices that they believed philosophers in particular embodied: speculation, absence of common sense, excessive systematizing? Drawing on a rich array sources, this article interprets vice-charging as rhetorical practice aimed at delineating empirical research from Naturphilosophie Geschichtsphilosophie practiced ...

This study enters the ‘kitchens of science’ or ‘backrooms’ international development agencies to examine methods used develop global COVID-19 response frameworks for education. These need be scrutinized as they are guide national Drawing upon theory change, examines how interventions embedded in these produced. The results show methodological flaws and epistemic violence...

Abstract A prominent view in religious epistemology, which I call divine-help epistemology , says that people of faith are epistemically gifted by God, whereas non-believers subject to the noetic effects a fallen world. This aims show how beliefs for can be justified. But argue it makes such prone cluster epistemic vices phariseeism . Divine-help is especially apt promote these because its norm...

Abstract Following Robert Adams's account of idolatry, this paper develops the concept epistemic idolatry. Where there is devotion belonging to truth but given a particular good, we find With in hand, motivationalist virtue epistemologists gain two theoretical advantages: their list defective motives can include intellectual motivation excess without implausible claim that, intellectually, one ...

Web services technologies are beginning to emerge as a defacto standard for integrating disparate applications and systems using open, XML-based standards. In addition to building web services interfaces to existing applications, there must also be a standard approach to connecting these web services together to form more meaningful business processes. In 2002, a number of new standards were in...

The use of equilibrium models in economics springs from the desire for parsimonious models of economic phenomena that take human reasoning into account. This approach has been the cornerstone of modern economic theory. We explain why this is so, extolling the virtues of equilibrium theory; then we present a critique and describe why this approach is inherently limited, and why economics needs t...