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Post-Enquiry and Disagreement. A Socio-Epistemological Model of the Normative Significance of Disagreement Between Scientists and Denialists
Get PDFIn this paper we investigate whether and to what extent scientists (e.g. inquirers such as epidemiologists or virologists) can have rational and fruitful disagreement with what we call post-enquirers (e.g. conspiratorial anti-vaxxers) on topics of scientific relevance such as the safety and efficacy of vaccines. In order to accomplish this aim, we will rely and expand on the epistemological framework developed in detail in Ferrari & Moruzzi (2021) to study the underlying normative profile of enquiry and post-enquiry. We take it that our analysis provides an effective explanation of why standard argumentative strategies such as fact-checking and debunking cannot work in the context of disagreement between scientists and denialists unless they are coupled with a discussion of the values that are endorsed by the scientific community
Promuovere didattiche attive all’università. Il contributo del questioning e della peer instruction.
No full textNel marzo 2016, presso l’Università di Bologna si è costituito un gruppo di ricerca interdisciplinare, composto da filosofi, antropologi, pedagogisti e semiologi, con l’obiettivo di promuovere la generazione di comunità di interesse e di pratiche sul tema delle didattiche attive. Come promuovere l’apprendimento attivo dello/degli studenti all’Università? Per rispondere a questa domanda il gruppo si è focalizzato su due aspetti dell’agire didattico che vengono presentati nel contributo. Le metodologie e le tecniche attraverso cui sostenere, in aula, l’apprendimento dello studente (il questioning e la peer instruction); le tecnologie digitali interpretate come strumenti di mediazione didattica
Non-Ideal Epistemology. The Model of Epistemic Filters|Epistemologia non-ideale Il modello dei filtri epistemici
No full textIn this article, we explore the impact of non-epistemic factors, such as social identity and cultural biases, on the formation and revision of beliefs. This type of impact is evident in contexts of opinion polarisation where the acceptance of scientific theses by groups of non-experts is at stake. Im these contexts digital media and social networks often play a central role. To analyse the impact of non-epistemic factors from an epistemological perspective, we employ a non-ideal approach to epistemology that takes into account some key non-epistemic factors through the concept of epistemic filter. By means of this concept we explain the selective acceptance of information, and we show how background assumptions and social values which are deeply rooted in an inquiring subject influence the selection and evaluation of evidence and sources of information. Through this non-ideal approach, we analyse the dynamics of scientific denialism, framing it as an epistemic phenomenon in which social and cultural influences shape and distort epistemic practices. We conclude that understanding these underlying mechanisms is crucial to addressing the challenges posed by misinformation and the deep social divisions that result from it
Eva Picardi on Language, Analysis and History
No full textThe volume contains 18 papers related to Eva Picardi's work. It is divided in three sections: one on Frege's philosophy of maths and language, one on themes from Donald Davidson, and one on linguistic competence and semantic contextualis
Guest Editors' Preface
No full textThe preface to Discipline filosofiche special issue on "Knowledge and Justification" provides a background to the eight articles collected therein and a brief summary of each
Practical knowledge and linguistic competence
Get PDFI begin by introducing the distinction between practical and propositional (or theoretical) knowledge. Then I consider some objections to it, with special attention to the ones put forward by Stanley and Williamson. Afterwards, I briefly summarize Chomsky’s position on linguistic competence—a position that, as mentioned, is based on the idea that linguistic competence consists in propositional knowledge. Finally, I criticize both the theoretical and the empirical arguments Chomsky puts forward in favor of his view and present some observations in favor of the idea that linguistic competence is ultimately practical
Logical Pluralism and Normativity
No full textIntroduction to the special issue on logical pluralism and normativit
An unusual case of abdominal pain
No full textHere is described a rare case of thrombosis of the splanchnic distric in a patient who was subsequently diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. The thrombotic event was the first manifestation of the inflammatory chronic diseas
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