This paper presents a study assessing first-year students’ engineering epistemological beliefs or beliefs about engineering knowledge and knowing. A small cohort of first-year engineering students pilot tested a new quantitative instrument called the Epistemological Beliefs Assessment for Engineering (EBAE). Student responses to the EBAE were used to validate the instrument and analyze the epis...

A mixed-method exploratory approach was employed to examine the relationship between epistemological beliefs and quality of thinking when participants first thought about an ill-structured problem alone, and then with another person in a dyad. The results showed that there was not a systematic connection between epistemological beliefs and ill-structured problem solving in either solo or paired...

This study explores the relationship between undergraduates’ epistemological beliefs and their information-seeking behavior. Kuhlthau’s information search process (ISP) model and four models of epistemological development from educational psychology formed the theoretical foundation of this investigation. Twenty undergraduates attending an Ivy League university were interviewed about their sear...

and Claims. Jerome A. Feldman Henry G. E. Kyburg, Jr. Depanments of Computer Science and Philosophy University of Rocllester Rochester, NY 14627 This essay tries to expound a conception of interval measures that pennits a particular approach to partial ignorance decision problems. l'he \ irtue of this approach for artificial reasoning systems is mat me following questions become moot: 1. which ...

Logics are powerful tools with which to reason about the behaviour of AI agents. A particular logic may provide an agent with an internal language with which it can represent and reason about the world, and act based upon its internal manipulation of this language. We can also use logics to reason about the behaviour of agents from an external perspective. For example, we could use a dynamic lo...

The renowned British philosopher Timothy Williamson talks about his philosophical views and main lines of research. is a metaphysical realist in broad sense. Fir him there are true or false answers to questions all aspects reality. Classical logic universal theory. Knowledge-first epistemology an alternative the traditional belief-first epistemology. former takes concept knowledge as basic conc...

The present study investigates the combination of an epistemological sensitization and two different critical thinking instructions, i.e., general infusion approach, in context change induced by presentation resolvable scientific controversies. In a randomized study, we tested hypothesis that controversies generally reduces absolutism multiplicism increases evaluativism. We assume these effects...

The concept of reliability is important in epistemology. Most obviously, it is important to reliabilists who build accounts of justification or knowledge that make central appeal to the notion of reliable belief production.1 But even if one does not take the reliabilist line, reliability is still an important concept for epistemological theorizing. In epistemology, most discussion of reliabilit...