Search Results - "Olsson, Erik J."

The Bi-directional Relationship between Source Characteristics and Message Content by Collins, Peter J, Hahn, Ulrike, von Gerber, Ylva, Olsson, Erik J

“…Much of what we believe we know, we know through the testimony of others (Coady, 1992). While there has been long-standing evidence that people are sensitive…”
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Self-imposed filter bubbles: Selective attention and exposure in online search by Ekström, Axel G., Niehorster, Diederick C., Olsson, Erik J.

“…It is commonly assumed that algorithmic curation of search results creates filter bubbles, where users’ beliefs are continually reinforced and opposing views…”
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The kind of group you want to belong to: Effects of group structure on group accuracy by Jönsson, Martin L., Hahn, Ulrike, Olsson, Erik J.

“…There has been much interest in group judgment and the so-called ‘wisdom of crowds’. In many real world contexts, members of groups not only share a dependence…”
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PageRank's ability to track webpage quality: reconciling Google's wisdom-of-crowds justification with the scale-free structure of the web by Masterton, George, Olsson, Erik J.

“…We address the fundamental question why we should use PageRank and similar link-based algorithms in search engines, if at all. In a legendary article from…”
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Shadow Management: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democratic Legitimacy through Ombudsmen with Case Studies from Swedish Higher Education by Sörensen, Jens, Olsson, Erik J.

“…We argue that the neoliberal tradition and new public management reforms of the public sector effectively erode the core (liberal) democratic values of the…”
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Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge: curriculum transformation in South Africa from a UNESCO perspective by Olsson, Erik J.

“…Decolonisation aims at exposing the ills of colonialism in an attempt to undo their long-standing effects. Important criticism of curriculum decolonisation has…”
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What Price Equality? The Academic Cost of Government Supervised Gender Mainstreaming at Swedish Universities by Olsson, Erik J., Sörensen, Jens Stilhoff

“…This article is focused on gender mainstreaming at Swedish universities in the period from 2016–2019. Our research questions are: (a) In what form was gender…”
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A diachronic perspective on peer disagreement in veritistic social epistemology by Olsson, Erik J.

“…The main issue in the epistemology of peer disagreement is whether known disagreement among those who are in symmetrical epistemic positions undermines the…”
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Explicationist Epistemology and the Explanatory Role of Knowledge by Olsson, Erik J.

“…It has been argued that much of contemporary epistemology can be unified under Carnap’s methodology of explication, which originated in the neighboring field…”
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Truth tracking performance of social networks: how connectivity and clustering can make groups less competent by Hahn, Ulrike, Hansen, Jens Ulrik, Olsson, Erik J.

“…Our beliefs and opinions are shaped by others, making our social networks crucial in determining what we believe to be true. Sometimes this is for the good…”
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Gettier and the method of explication: a 60 year old solution to a 50 year old problem by Olsson, Erik J.

“…I challenge a cornerstone of the Gettier debate: that a proposed analysis of the concept of knowledge is inadequate unless it entails that people don't know in…”
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Dahlman and Mackor on coherence and probability in legal evidence: a commentary by Olsson, Erik J

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Engel vs. Rorty on truth by Olsson, Erik J.

“…My concern in this paper is a debate between Pascal Engel and Richard Rorty documented in the book What's the Use of Truth? Both Engel and Rorty problematize…”
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Linking as voting: how the Condorcet jury theorem in political science is relevant to webometrics by Masterton, George, Olsson, Erik J., Angere, Staffan

“…A webmaster’s decision to link to a webpage can be interpreted as a “vote” for that webpage. But how far does the parallel between linking and voting extend?…”
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Norms of assertion and communication in social networks by Olsson, Erik J., Vallinder, Aron

“…Epistemologists can be divided into two camps: those who think that nothing short of certainty or (subjective) probability 1 can warrant assertion and those…”
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From Impact to Importance: The Current State of the Wisdom-of-Crowds Justification of Link-Based Ranking Algorithms by Masterton, George, Olsson, Erik J.

“…In a legendary technical report, the Google founders sketched a wisdom-of-crowds justification for PageRank arguing that the algorithm, by aggregating incoming…”
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Trust and the value of overconfidence: a Bayesian perspective on social network communication by Vallinder, Aron, Olsson, Erik J.

“…The paper presents and defends a Bayesian theory of trust in social networks. In the first part of the paper, we provide justifications for the basic…”
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The Cognitive Basis of the Conditional Probability Solution to the Value Problem for Reliabilism by Olsson, Erik J., Tjøstheim, Trond A., Stephens, Andreas, Schwaninger, Arthur, Roszko, Maximilian

“…The value problem for knowledge is the problem of explaining why knowledge is more valuable than mere true belief. The problem arises for reliabilism in…”
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A Dynamical Perspective on the Generality Problem by Stephens, Andreas, Tjøstheim, Trond A., Roszko, Maximilian K., Olsson, Erik J.

“…The generality problem is commonly considered to be a critical difficulty for reliabilism. In this paper, we present a dynamical perspective on the problem in…”
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Do computer simulations support the Argument from Disagreement? by Vallinder, Aron, Olsson, Erik J.

“…According to the Argument from Disagreement (AD) widespread and persistent disagreement on ethical issues indicates that our moral opinions are not influenced…”
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