Ayer and Stevenson advocated ethical emotivisms, non-cognitivist understandings of the meanings of moral terms and functions of moral judgments. I argue that their reasons for ethical emotivisms suggest analogous epistemological emotivisms. Epistemological emotivism importantly undercuts any epistemic support Ayer and Stevenson offered for ethical emotivism. This is because if epistemic emotivi...

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Adequate ideas are the fundamental element of Spinoza’s epistemological program. However, a recurrent worry among scholars is that account adequate inconsistent with any finite being ever having one. As I frame it, problem for Spinoza an idea in mind only if all its causal antecedents lie within as well. it seems there can be no which this true; minds come to and exist deterministic nexus, ever...

Several years ago, Jerry Fodor (1984) argued that the modularity of the perceptual systems was good news for epistemology. In particular, on the assumption that perceptual systems are modular in his (1983) sense of the term, they are informationally encapsulated, which means that their operation is not sensitive to the beliefs, desires, and such of the larger organism. This would allay worries ...

Epicurean epistemology is usually summarised in a controversial thesis according to which all perceptions are true . Although it seems very problematic and counterintuitive, careful investigation of the main sources shows us that Epicurus’ claim for the truth of perceptions is not so hasty but is supported with some serious arguments . in the paper, i examine the thesis according to which “all ...

The aim of this study was to prepare a model for computer anxiety through investigating the relationship of achievement goals and epistemological beliefs with computer anxiety. In order to fulfill this, 375 undergraduate students (218 female and 157 male) from the University of Tehran were chosen through relative class sampling. They completed a questionnaire composed of an achievement goals sc...

The current study aimed to examine the effects of context-based approaches on students’ epistemological beliefs. used a quasi-experimental pre-post-test design with two treatment groups (TGs) and one comparison group (CG). A total 131 grade ten students participated in study. TG 1 received relating, experiencing, applying, cooperating, transferring (REACT) strategy teaching approach, whereas 2 ...