Evaluating sources of scientific evidence and claims in the post-truth era may require reappraising plausibility judgments

GM Sinatra, D Lombardi - Educational Psychologist, 2020‏ - Taylor & Francis
When individuals have questions about scientific issues, they often search the Internet.
Evaluating sources of information and claims they find has become more difficult in the post …

[ספר][B] Vice epistemology

IJ Kidd, HD Battaly, Q Cassam - 2021‏ - api.taylorfrancis.com
Some of the most problematic human behaviors involve vices of the mind such as
arrogance, closed-mindedness, dogmatism, gullibility, and intellectual cowardice, as well as …

[ספר][B] Climate science

WS Parker - 2024‏ - cambridge.org
This Element examines how climate scientists have arrived at answers to three key
questions about climate change: How much is earth's climate warming? What is causing this …

Intellectual servility and timidity

A Tanesini - Journal of Philosophical Research, 2018‏ - orca.cardiff.ac.uk
ntellectual servility is a vice opposing proper pride about one's intellectual achievements.
Intellectual timidity is also a vice; it is manifested in a lack of proper concern for others' …

Deep epistemic vices

IJ Kidd - 2018‏ - philpapers.org
Although the discipline of vice epistemology is only a decade old, the broader project of
studying epistemic vices and failings is much older. This paper argues that contemporary …

Consensus versus unanimity: Which carries more weight?

F Dellsén - 2021‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Around 97% of climate scientists endorse anthropogenic global warming (AGW), the theory
that human activities are partly responsible for recent increases in global average …

Epistemic corruption and political institutions

IJ Kidd - The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology, 2021‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Institutions play an indispensable role in our political and epistemic lives. This chapter
explores sympathetically the claim that political institutions can be bearers of epistemic …

Exploring the limits of dissent: the case of shooting bias

A Leuschner, M Fernandez Pinto - Synthese, 2022‏ - Springer
The shooting bias hypothesis aims to explain the disproportionate number of minorities
killed by police. We present the evidence mounting in support of the existence of shooting …

How dissent on gender bias in academia affects science and society: Learning from the case of climate change denial

A Leuschner, MF Pinto - Philosophy of Science, 2021‏ - cambridge.org
Gender bias is a recalcitrant problem in academia and society. However, dissent has been
created on this issue. We focus on dissenting studies by Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M …

Epistemic courage and the harms of epistemic life

IJ Kidd - The Routledge handbook of virtue epistemology, 2018‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Courage is a virtue of the mind because the life of the mind—inquiring, criticizing,
investigating—exposes us to a variety of harms: infringements on one's interests. If epistemic …