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1	The Encultured Mind: From Cognitive Science to Social Epistemology Eck, David Alexander 12 March 2015 (has links) There have been monumental advances in the study of the social dimensions of knowledge in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. But it has been common within a wide variety of fields--including social philosophy, cognitive science, epistemology, and the philosophy of science--to approach the social dimensions of knowledge as simply another resource to be utilized or controlled. I call this view, in which other people's epistemic significance are only of instrumental value, manipulationism. I identify manipulationism, trace its manifestations in the aforementioned fields, and explain how to move beyond it. The principal strategy that I employ for moving beyond manipulationism consists of synthesizing enactivism and neo-Kuhnian social epistemology. Specifically, I expand the enactivist concept of participatory sense-making by linking it to recent conceptual innovations in social epistemology, such as the concept of immanent cogent argumentation. embodied knowledge enactivism participatory sense-making tacit knowledge testimonial knowledge Philosophy
2	Animal Farm, Truth and The Power of Language : Teaching Literature, Logic and Epistemology Together Olsson, Anton January 2022 (has links) Language can create realities, and the totalitarian pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm tend to use language in order to control the oppressed animals’ minds and world view. Orwell’s dystopian fable Animal Farm repeatedly deals with manipulative language, and so an analysis of the animal characters’ language may help upper secondary students to understand themes such as the power of language and truth. Moreover, for students to understand the power of language and truth in Animal Farm more easily I, in this essay, argue that logic and epistemology might help. This logical and epistemological perspective can be seen as a philosophical perspective for English teachers and students when they discuss language and truth on the farm. Finally, this philosophical analysis of Animal Farm may also improve students’ logical reasoning skills and critical thinking. philosophy EFL upper secondary school logical reasoning critical thinking George Orwell Animal Farm testimonial knowledge objective and historical truth fallacies epistemology literary themes the power of language Humanities and the Arts Humaniora och konst

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The Encultured Mind: From Cognitive Science to Social Epistemology

Animal Farm, Truth and The Power of Language : Teaching Literature, Logic and Epistemology Together