Jonathan E. Adler
City University of New York
9 Papers
66 Citations
Jonathan E. Adler is an academic researcher from City University of New York. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prejudice (legal term) & Philosophy of science. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 9 publications.
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Reconciling Open-Mindedness and Belief
TL;DR: The authors defend a reconciliation of the suggested conflict that turns on open-mindedness as an educational aim subordinate to the aim of knowledge, and argue that one can be openminded about a strongly held belief.
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Is the Generality Problem too General
Jonathan E. Adler,Michael Levin +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argued that the generality problem is illusory and pointed out that the gratuitous puzzles created thereby show that the "generality problem" is not a real problem, but an illusion.
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Contextualism and fallibility: pragmatic encroachment, possibility, and strength of epistemic position
TL;DR: In the final section, I offer a unification of these criticisms centering on the contextualist use of ‘epistemic position’, which imposes on threshold notions of justification, warrant, or knowledge tests that are suitable only to unlimited comparative or scalar notions like confidence or certainty.
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Cross-Cultural Education, Open-mindedness, and Time
Jonathan E. Adler
- 01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: Open-mindedness is a goal for a liberal-arts education, falling under the more basic goals of transmitting and developing major areas of knowledge, providing the foundations for a democratic citizenry, and promoting sustained intellectual pursuits.
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