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#Epistemics ##Factorial Analysis of Personal Epistemology

This is a side-project dealing with high-school students and young graduate adults 'personal epistemologies' (Hofer and Pintrich, 1995). Rather than a set of beliefs, said epistemologies are dealt with as coherent professional ideologies (Althusser, 1990, 2008), acquired via institutional initiation, after high school. A 9-dimensional instrument is constructed on the basis of meta-scientific bibliography (Brown, 1993; Hacking, 1983, 1999; Hanson, 1958; Kuhn, 2012; Lakatos, 1980), and explored with Principal Components Analysis in young graduate adults, 12th graders with either humanties or science as a major orientation and 10th graders, without specific formal orientation.

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Chalmers, A. F. (1999). What Is This Thing Called Science?. Univ. of Queensland Press.
Hacking, I. (1983). Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science. Cambridge University Press.
Hacking, I. (1999). The Social Construction of What?. Harvard University Press.
Hanson, N. R. (1958). Patterns of Discovery: An Inquiry Into the Conceptual Foundations of Science. CUP Archive.
Hofer, B. K., & Pintrich, P. R. (1997). The Development of Epistemological Theories: Beliefs about Knowledge and Knowing and Their Relation to Learning. Review of Educational Research, 67(1), 88–140. doi:10.2307/1170620
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Lakatos, I. (1980). Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers. Cambridge University Press.