In the “Western” cultures of business and science, there is an interesting and arguably irrational belief that quantitative measures are in all cases superior to qualitative measures. The consequences of this belief are more than an epistemological curiosity; the resulting over-reliance on quantitative measurement and undervaluation of qualitative reasoning can be measured in the tens of millio...

The world view of students was investigated by measuring covert causal assumptions about the relationship between the person and physical and social reality. The Attitudes About Reality Scale was designed to measure a philosophical dimension ranging between a belief in social constructionism and a belief in logical positivism. These personal epistemologies are related to demographic markers suc...

It’s widely accepted that rational belief aims at truth.1 Objectively correct belief is true belief. A more controversial question: how should rational believers pursue the aim of truth? Epistemic utility theorists have argued that the framework of decision theory can explain what it means for rational belief to have the aim of approximating the truth. By combining the tools of decision theory ...

BACKGROUND More empirical work is needed to examine the dimensionality of personal epistemology and relations between those dimensions and motivational and strategic components of self-regulated learning. In particular, there is great need to investigate personal epistemology and its relation to self-regulated learning across cultures and academic contexts. Because the demarcation between perso...

Students attending University come as a unique package complete with a variety of learning styles and experiences. Prior knowledge, understanding and personal epistemological beliefs play critical roles in how students understand and philosophise concepts surrounding information proffered by educators. The purpose of this study is to construct an epistemological beliefs survey instrument by ext...

Today, the concepts of “epistemological belief” (EB) and “locus control” (LOC) have become important in education. It is considerable to investigate these on teacher candidates who are teachers future. This study aimed examine LOC EB social studies candidates. The research, which adopted a survey model, was conducted with five hundred fifty studying at seven state universities Turkey. Locus Con...

Purpose: This paper outlines a social epistemological and ethical warrant for engaging in knowledge exchange on the social web, and emphasises socio-cognitive and emotional factors behind motivation and credibility in communities supported by social software. An attempt is made to identify positive and negative patterns of interaction from this perspective and to argue for more positive interve...

Abstract Justified belief is a core concept in epistemology and there has been an increasing interest its logic over the last years. While many logical investigations consider justified as operator, this paper, we propose for which relevant notion treated predicate instead. Although gives rise to possibility of liar-like paradoxes, treatment allows rich highly expressive framework, lives up uni...