Seit einiger Zeit ist in der wirtschaftspolitischen Diskussion die Auffassung verbreitet, die Wirtschaftswissenschaft stünde im Globalisierungsprozess wachsenden Ansprüchen gegenüber, verbessertes Steuerungswissen für die Wirtschaftspolitik bereitzustellen. Dass große ökonomische Krisen...

This study aims at examining the epistemological beliefs of undergraduates in the colleges of Education at Jordanian universities. It also investigates the presence of significant differences in these beliefs with the changes of level, gender and university. The researcher has modified the...

An important issue for information ethics is how much control people should have over the dissemination of information that they have created. Since intellectual property policies have an impact on our welfare primarily because they have a huge impact on our ability to acquire knowledge, there...

In order to guide the decisions of real people who want to bring about good epistemic outcomes for themselves and others, we need to understand our epistemic values. In Knowledge in a Social World, Alvin Goldman has proposed an epistemic value theory that allows us to say whether one outcome is...

This is a presentation of Law & Economics (L&E) tradition within a civil law context legal epistemology. Starting from a review of the modern legal paradigms in Brazil, L&E is historically and epistemologically contextualized. The main objective of the paper is to offer a first approach for...

What's Engineering Knowledge? How different is it from traditional Scientific Knowledge? How can we obtain reliable Engineering Knowledge? How can we assess the value of Engineering Knowledge? To help answer these questions and contribute to a reflection on the epistemology of engineering, we...