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Many philosophers have found it plausible that sense experience affords a species of nonpropositional awareness and knowledge, what Russell termed “knowledge by acquaintance.” At the same time, a prominent strand in epistemology maintains that knowledge...

Recognition of one’s positive qualities is fundamental to human dignity. Research in the cultural sociology of morality, worth, and evaluation has explored how individuals respond to stigmatization and moral devaluation, emphasizing the recognition claims...

In this chapter, the editors briefly describe the rationale for examining the civic learning assessment landscape. They provide an overview of the volume, summarizing the contents of each section. They conclude by discussing the potential benefits of a...

Invigorating civic education to prepare learners for active participation in democracy requires that we define and assess what constitutes civic readiness. This chapter describes the efforts of the Democratic Knowledge Project to design an assessment...

The laws of war, in most accounts, rest on two central premises: (1) they are “humanitarian,” designed to protect individuals, and (2) they have been so since at least the aftermath of World War II. This Article undercuts that narrative. Contrary to...

Egalitarianism and prioritarianism are competing views about the ethics of distribution. Both views have wide scopes of concern. But, writing in this journal, Michael Otsuka has discovered a case that seems to show an interesting asymmetry between the...

Democratic discourse is increasingly strained by social risk and deep ideological division, leaving citizens reluctant to engage across disagreement even when such engagement is essential for collective epistemic progress. In this paper, we argue that...

While voluntary epistemic isolation is often regarded as epistemically detrimental, particularly in discussions of echo chambers and epistemic bubbles, this perspective overlooks the potential benefits isolation can offer to broader epistemic communities...

This paper challenges the viability of pragmatism as a response to skepticism, with particular focus on the epistemic regress problem. Pragmatist epistemology is characterized by three commitments: radical fallibilism, optimism about inquiry, and a method...

An ecological epistemology arguing that epistemic agents, communities, and environments adapt to one another to generate evolving understandings of the world.

Mainstream epistemology focuses on static states. In Epistemic Ecology, Catherine Elgin adopts a...

Euthanasia and assisted suicide on the sole basis of a mental disorder like depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, or PTSD, might well be one of society and medicine’s most significant contemporary developments. Permitted in a few countries like the...