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Indoctrination and Democratic Legitimacy

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I argue that indoctrination undermines voter competence, and that widespread indoctrination thereby compromises the legitimacy of otherwise free and fair elections. Drawing on recent work in virtue epistemology, I provide an epistemic account of indoctrination according to which one is indoctrinated only if they hold an epistemically impactful
James H. McIntyre
wiley   +1 more source

Dogmatism, Materialism and Faith in Graham Greene’s Prose

American and British Studies Annual, 2015
This article deals with materialism, religious dogmatism and faith in Graham Greene’s novels The Power and the Glory (1940), The Heart of the Matter (1948), and the short story “The Hint of an Explanation” (1954).
Bohdan Vysloužil
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Dogmatism and Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic?

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes and objects to the anti‐skeptical strategy endorsed by Epistemological Dogmatism. Dogmatism is a theory of epistemic justification that holds perceptual warrant for our beliefs is immediate, based on experiential seemings. Crucially, it rejects requests for higher‐order justification or active defense of the justification ...
Guido Tana
wiley   +1 more source

Stigma and Rawlsian Liberalism

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Euan Allison
wiley   +1 more source

A Theory of Sense‐Data

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I develop and defend a sense‐datum theory of perception. My theory follows the spirit of classic sense‐datum theories: I argue that what it is to have a perceptual experience is to be acquainted with some sense‐data, where sense‐data are private particulars that have all the properties they appear to have, that are common to both perception ...
Andrew Y. Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Kant on the Sensual and Rational Factors of Human Actions: A Рsychological and Transcendental Analysis

Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal
The article examines Immanuel Kant’s psychological and transcendental analysis of the factors that determine human actions in different ways and with different strengths.
Viktor Kozlovskyi
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The Origins of Platonists' Dogmatism [PDF]

SCHOLE, 2007
The author argues, that the exigencies of inter‐school rivalry, initially between the Academy and the Peripatos, but then between later Platonists and both Stoics and Aristotelians, demanded that Platonism become more formalized than it was left by Plato
Dillon, John
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Standing Your Ground on Moral Disagreement

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Moral disagreement is often invoked to support skeptical conclusions about moral judgment, typically by modeling it on the epistemology of peer disagreement. On the dominant picture, disagreement with a peer supplies higher‐order evidence of error and thereby rationally requires suspension of judgment or a substantial reduction in confidence ...
Mario Gensollen, Marc Jiménez‐Rolland, Alejandro Mosqueda   +2 more
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A farewell to dogmatic retention [PDF]

The European Journal of Orthodontics, 2014
SummaryFine orthodontic treatment results are fine. Fine stable results are finer. But when is stability achieved? Many studies show that the decline from optimal alignment and occlusion is most rapid immediately after appliance removal and slows down after some three to five years. For stabilization, we need some form of retention.
openaire   +2 more sources

Elements of Carlos Vaz Ferreira’s Philosophy as Strategies to Counteract the Impact of Polarization

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The work of Uruguayan philosopher Carlos Vaz Ferreira (1872-1958) shows a deep ethical commitment to institutions and forms of sociopolitical organization that favor peaceful coexistence in societies that, like his own, at the beginning of the 20th ...
Fernanda Diab
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