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Human Sensory Knowledge
The first three chapters deal with different modes of experiential knowledge as these appear in animals and, as I suggest, in humans too. Following...
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Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia
BackgroundResearchers must adhere to ethical and scientific standards in their research involving human subjects; therefore, their knowledge of human...
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The Biological and Social Dimensions of Human Knowledge
Traditionally, philosophers have argued that epistemology is a normative discipline and therefore occupied with an a priori analysis of the necessary...
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The Birth of Human-Machine Knowledge
Changes happen in both time and space. The technology collaboration and integration development of agent and multi-agent mark the arrival of the era...
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Hinges in the knowledge economy. on greco’s common and procedural knowledge
In his “Common knowledge” (2016) and The Transmission of Knowledge (2021), John Greco proposes a novel account of hinge propositions. Central to it...
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A Plural Nomos: Law, Life, and Knowledge
Even in its limited state-based form, human law owes its existence to the natural physical world with its self-created value systems. What is...
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Re-situations of scientific knowledge: a case study of a skirmish over clusters vs clines in human population genomics
We track and analyze the re-situation of scientific knowledge in the field of human population genomics ancestry studies. We understand re-situation...
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Descartes’s Influence on Locke’s Theory of Knowledge
An explicit assessment of the extent of René Descartes's influence on John Locke's theory of knowledge as presented in his work An Essay Concerning...
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Normative Defeaters and the Alleged Impossibility of Mere Animal Knowledge for Reflective Subjects
One emerging issue in contemporary epistemology concerns the relation between animal knowledge, which can be had by agents unable to take a view on...
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Adamson, Avicenna and God’s knowledge of particulars
Allegedly, according to Avicenna’s theory of God’s knowledge of particulars, God knows particulars in a universal way or universally . But, it is...
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Knowledge as a Social Kind
I argue that knowledge can be seen as a quality standard that governs our sharing and storing of information. This standard satisfies certain...
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Moral Knowledge Without Knowledge of Moral Knowledge
Most people believe some moral propositions are true. Most people would say that they know that rape is wrong, torturing people is wrong, and so on....
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Knowledge Control and the Spectacle
The intellectual property system has become universal, imposing homogenisation pressure on knowledge production, subordinated to capitalist...
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The importance of expert knowledge in big data and machine learning
According to popular belief, big data and machine learning provide a wholly novel approach to science that has the potential to revolutionise...
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Encultured knowing: knowledge transmission and varieties of cultural learning
Much recent empirical work in the developmental sciences has emphasized the importance of cultural knowledge transmission for the processes of human...
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Moral knowledge and the existence of god
In this essay, I argue that, all else being equal, theism is more probable than naturalism on the assumption that human beings are able to arrive at...
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Knowledge in real-world contexts: not glamorous, but indispensable
During the past several decades, many epistemologists have argued for and contributed to a paradigm shift according to which knowledge is central to...
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Decentering Humanism in Philosophy and the Sciences: Ecologies of Agency, Subversive Animism, and Diffractional Knowledge
The idea that humans are clearly distinguished from other animals and from the natural world in general is a cornerstone of European philosophy and...
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Knowledge as a (Non-factive) Mental State
The thesis that knowledge is a factive mental state plays a central role in knowledge-first epistemology, but accepting this thesis requires also...