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Closing the Hermeneutical Gap in STEM Education: A Reply to Lawrence Torcello, Sharon E. Mason
Education has a plurality of aims, one of which is to increase knowledge and decrease ignorance. The relation between knowledge and ignorance, however, turns out to be surprisingly complicated. Sometimes ignorance is actively held in place by various forces that… Read More ›
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Some Devils in the Details: Methodological Concerns Regarding Mizrahi’s “The Scientism Debate”, Amanda Bryant
“The Scientism Debate” in Summary In his article “The Scientism Debate: A Battle for the Soul of Philosophy?” (2019), Moti Mizrahi sets out to empirically test two hypotheses that putatively explain why philosophers find scientism threatening. The hypotheses are: H1:… Read More ›
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Ideality and Cognitive Development: Further Comments on Azeri’s “The Match of Ideals,” Chris Drain
In his recent article, Siyaves Azeri (2020) responds to “Wigner’s riddle,” i.e., how it is that mathematics can be so “unreasonably” effective at explaining physical law, especially considering how so many advanced mathematical concepts—unlike those of elementary arithmetic and geometry—originate so… Read More ›
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SERRC, Volume 9, Issue 10, October 2020
Books ❧ Agassi, Joseph. 2020. Academic Agonies and How to Avoid Them: Advice to Young People on Their Way to Academic Careers. Blacksburg, VA: Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. Volume 9, Issue 10, October 2020 Articles, Replies, and Reviews… Read More ›
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Table of Contents, Academic Agonies and How to Avoid Them, Joseph Agassi
Academic Agonies and How to Avoid Them: Advice to Young People on Their Way to Academic Careers Joseph Agassi © Joseph Agassi, Published 2020 Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective Blacksburg, VA TABLE OF CONTENTS ◈ Academic Agonies and How… Read More ›
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Front Matter, Academic Agonies and How to Avoid Them, Joseph Agassi
❦ TABLE OF CONTENTS FRONT MATTER | PREFACE | PROLOGUE | PART I: DIAGNOSIS | PART II: ETIOLOGY | | PART III: PRESCRIPTIONS | PART IV: PROGNOSIS | EPILOGUE | And do not tell them, “make your opinions like… Read More ›
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Preface, Academic Agonies and How to Avoid Them, Joseph Agassi
❦ TABLE OF CONTENTS FRONT MATTER | PREFACE | PROLOGUE | PART I: DIAGNOSIS | PART II: ETIOLOGY | | PART III: PRESCRIPTIONS | PART IV: PROGNOSIS | EPILOGUE | PREFACE I began writing the following pages in summer… Read More ›
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Prologue, Academic Agonies and How to Avoid Them, Joseph Agassi
❦ TABLE OF CONTENTS FRONT MATTER | PREFACE | PROLOGUE | PART I: DIAGNOSIS | PART II: ETIOLOGY | | PART III: PRESCRIPTIONS | PART IV: PROGNOSIS | EPILOGUE | PROLOGUE ❧ 1. The Publisher To The Learned Reader… Read More ›
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Part I: Diagnosis, Academic Agonies and How to Avoid Them, Joseph Agassi
❦ TABLE OF CONTENTS FRONT MATTER | PREFACE | PROLOGUE | PART I: DIAGNOSIS | PART II: ETIOLOGY | | PART III: PRESCRIPTIONS | PART IV: PROGNOSIS | EPILOGUE | PART I: DIAGNOSIS ❧ 1. Anything Wrong? Not Really… Read More ›
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Part II: Etiology, Academic Agonies and How to Avoid Them, Joseph Agassi
❦ TABLE OF CONTENTS FRONT MATTER | PREFACE | PROLOGUE | PART I: DIAGNOSIS | PART II: ETIOLOGY | | PART III: PRESCRIPTIONS | PART IV: PROGNOSIS | EPILOGUE | PART II: ETIOLOGY ❧ 1. The Tyranny of the… Read More ›