This study attempted to investigate the level of EFL learners’ epistemological beliefs and learning strategy use as well as the contribution of epistemological beliefs to their learning strategy use in Bahir Dar University. Comprehensively selected 136 EFL students at the Faculty of Humanities of Bahir Dar University responded to modified versions of Epistemological Beliefs Questionnaire and Mo...

Objective: This research aims to determine the epistemological beliefs of nursing undergraduate students and examine affecting factors. Material Methods: study uses a descriptive cross-sectional design. The sample consisted 621 receiving education in 2018-2019 academic year. 'personal information form', consisting 10 questions developed by researchers based on literature, 'Epistemological Belie...

Dormandy’s ‘True Faith’ presents two views on the proper epistemological stance towards faith: doxastic-partialism and evidentialism. Here, I argue for a third option that cuts across evidentialism/partialism distinction. first analyze Pascalian conception of faith, arguing Pascal begins with cognitive attitude acceptance rather than belief. Next, discuss case evidentialism, contend some eviden...

Dialectical egalitarianism holds that every asserted proposition requires defence when challenged by an interlocutor. This view apparently generates a vicious “regress of justifications,” since an interlocutor can challenge the premises through which a speaker defends her original assertion, and so on ad infinitum. To halt the regress, dialectical foundationalists such as Adler, Brandom, Leite,...

Abstract It is widely held in philosophy that knowing not a state of mind. On this view, rather than knowledge itself constituting mental state, when we know, occupy belief exhibits some additional non-mental characteristics. Fascinatingly, however, new empirical findings from cognitive neuroscience and experimental now offer direct, converging evidence the brain can—and often does—treat as if ...

The aim of this article is (1) to investigate the "neurosciences" as an object of study for historical and genealogical approaches and (2) to characterize what we identify as a particular "style of thought" that consolidated with the birth of this new thought community and that we term the "neuromolecular gaze." This article argues that while there is a long history of research on the brain, th...

It is widely held, by social scientists as well as by lay people, that the members of human groups have an "innate" propensity to distinguish between insiders and outsiders, to delineate social boundaries and to develop stereotypes about "the other" in order to sustain and justify these boundaries. If this is indeed the case, ethnicity can be conceived of as being nearly as universal a characte...