Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Epistemology"
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Epistemic Injustice: Understanding Across Difference
(2011-09-06)Miranda Fricker argues that powerless social groups may be subject to a unique form of injustice: hermeneutical injustice. On her account, deficiencies in the shared tools of interpretation may render the experiences of ... -
EPISTEMIC RESPONSIBILITY: ON THE RELEVANCE OF FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGY TO MAINSTREAM EPISTEMOLOGY
(2020-12-15)The aim of this dissertation is to build a concept of epistemic responsibility that takes seriously insights from feminist epistemology, addiction studies, and disability theory. I use John Greco’s knowledge-as-achievement ... -
The Formal Foundations of Our Epistemic Practices
(2014-12-11)There is a dominant tradition in epistemology that largely begins with René Descartes’ search for a firm foundation for the sciences. Epistemologies after the fashion of Descartes that seek what he sought—namely, real ... -
The Root of All Dimensions
(2014-08-21)This thesis aims to resolve the disjunction of ontology and epistemology in Platonist mathematical philosophy. This disharmony results from the assumption of the non-spatiotemporal existence of abstract mathematical entities, ... -
System-driven Research: Legitimate Experimental Design for Biological/biomedical Research
(2015-03-30)Exciting new high-throughput methodologies permit innovative experimental designs for current biological and biomedical research. Much of this research is “non-hypothesis-driven”: its experiments are not designed around a ...
