Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with the varieties, grounds, and validity of knowledge. As in Sociology of knowledge, epistemology is the study of knowledge and of how we know. All science, since it is concerned with verification and proving or disproving, must make assumptions about how we know.Best Replica Watches All science then adopts an epistemology. In sociology there has been a long debate about the sources of knowledge and this can be seen in the differences between positivism and postmodernism, or between positivism and phenomenological sociology. Epistemics is the branch of science that deals with knowledge and understanding. ory, utilitarianism, Kant's categorical imperative, Aristotle's virtue ethics.
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Ontology and epistemology are elements of the philosophy of knowledge. But there is clear distinction,richard mille replica watches epistemology is about the way we know things when ontology is about what things are. Epistemology describes the many approaches to understand our world. It is the science of knowledge and is often understood as the science of defining what is the "scientific way". It studies the fundamental choices you take into account when you attempt to know something.
Epistemology and ontology are terms we encounter sociology and research. Epistemology denotes the knowledge as perceived by people and ontology denotes actual knowledge. Ontology and epistemology help us to decide our research methodology. In research design, a researcher, should be clear on ontology and Epistemology, which research paradigm. The research method and data gathering techniques, and data analysis approaches are as important. Ontology is the branch of philosophy that deals with the trivial issue of the nature of reality. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of knowledge and is therefore central to any research claims to contribute new knowledge. Audemars Piguet Replica
Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science - Anderson, Elizabeth - The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Abstract: The central concept of feminist epistemology is that of a situated knower, and hence of situated knowledge: knowledge that reflects the particular perspectives of the subject. Feminist philosophers interested in how gender situates knowing subjects have articulated three main approaches to this question: feminist standpoint theory, feminist postmodernism, and feminist empiricism.
Social Epistemology and the Digital Divide
- by Don Fallis School
Abstract: One of the main reasons why the digital divide is an important issue is that
access to information technology has a tremendous impact on people's ability to acquire
knowledge. According to Alvin Goldman (1999), the project of social epistemology is to
identify policies and practices that have good epistemic consequences. In this paper, I
argue that this sort of approach to social epistemology can help us to decide on policies
for dealing with the digital divide.
The Epistemology of Democracy - Anderson, Elizabeth
Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology.
Abstract: This paper investigates the epistemic powers of democratic
institutions through an assessment of three epistemic models of democracy: the
Condorcet Jury Theorem, the Diversity Trumps Ability Theorem, and Dewey's
experimentalist model. Dewey's model is superior to the others in its ability to
model the epistemic functions of three constitutive features of democracy: the
epistemic diversity of participants, the interaction of voting with discussion,
and feedback mechanisms such as periodic elections and protests.
Dominionism and Epistemology - Hudson,
Gabriel
Annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National
Conference.
Abstract: Dominionism is an authoritarian ideology that combines political hegemony with
metaphysical certitude. A key impediment to any authoritarian leadership is the capacity
of subjects to question and counter its claims to power. This paper examines an American
political movement that works within the confines of liberal democracy to supplant liberal
democracy. Critical to its agenda is the undermining of institutions that cultivate reason
in citizens. The underlying difference in the conflict between dominionism and reason is
best understood as a competition of epistemologies.
Transforming socio-economics with a new epistemology - Rogers
Hollingsworth, Karl H. Muller, Socio-Economic Rev 2008 6(3).
This paper argues that a new scientific framework (Science II) has been slowly emerging,
rivaling the Descartes–Newtonian perspective (Science I) dominant for several hundred
years. The Science II framework places a great deal of emphasis on evolution, dynamism,
chance and/or pattern recognition. As both cause and effect of the new perspective,
scholars in the physical, biological and social sciences are increasingly addressing
common problems, borrowing insights from and interacting with each other. The epistemology
of Science II has enormous potential for understanding problems of fundamental interest to
socio-economists.
The Bias Paradox in Feminist Standpoint Epistemology - Rolin, Kristina.
Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology
Abstract: Sandra Harding's feminist standpoint epistemology makes two claims.
The thesis of epistemic privilege claims that unprivileged social positions are
likely to generate perspectives that are "less partial and less distorted" than
perspectives generated by other social positions. The situated knowledge thesis
claims that all scientific knowledge is socially situated. The bias paradox is
the tension between these two claims. Whereas the thesis of epistemic privilege
relies on the assumption that a standard of impartiality enables one to judge
some perspectives as better than others, the situated knowledge thesis seems to
undermine this assumption by suggesting that all knowledge is partial.
Analytic Epistemology and Experimental Philosophy
Joshua Alexander and Jonathan M. Weinberg - Philosophy Compass, Volume 2(1), 2007
Abstract: It has been standard philosophical practice in analytic philosophy to employ
intuitions generated in response to thought-experiments as evidence in the evaluation of
philosophical claims. In part as a response to this practice, an exciting new movement,
experimental philosophy, has recently emerged. This movement is unified behind both a
common methodology and a common aim: the application of methods of experimental psychology
to the study of the nature of intuitions. We will
also defend experimental philosophy from some recent objections, suggest future directions
for work in experimental philosophy, and suggest what future lines of epistemological
response might be available to those wishing to defend analytic epistemology from the
challenges posed by experimental philosophy.