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Skeptical Theism [PDF]

, 2017
Skeptical theism is a family of responses to the evidential problem of evil. What unifies this family is two general claims. First, that even if God were to exist, we shouldn’t expect to see God’s reasons for permitting the suffering we observe.
Perrine, Timothy, Wykstra, Stephen
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Social Kinds, Reference, and Meta-Ontological Revisionism

Journal of Social Ontology, 2019
Julian Dodd has characterized the default position in metaphysics as meta-ontologically realist: the answers to first-order ontological questions are thought to be entirely independent of the things we say and think about the entities at issue ...
Xhignesse Michel-Antoine
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Introduction: Examined Live – An Epistemological Exchange Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology on Reflection [PDF]

, 2019
Besides the general agreement about the human capability of reflection, there is a large area of disagreement and debate about the nature and value of “reflective scrutiny” and the role of “second-order states” in everyday life.
A Goldman, A Gürtner, B Frances, C Korsgaard, C Korsgaard, D Christensen, D Dunning, D Kahneman, E Mayr, E Sosa, E Sosa, E Sosa, E Sosa, E Sosa, E Sosa, E Sosa, E Sosa, F Brentano, H Battaly, H Frankfurt, H Frankfurt, H Kornblith, H Kornblith, H Procee, HJ Hermans, I Marková, ICM Seggelen–Damen Van, J Baehr, J Greco, J Livengood, J Matheson, J McDowell, J Proust, J Skorupski, J Valsiner, J Valsiner, JL Kvanvig, JM Doris, K Mann, L Bonjour, L Tateo, LT Zagzebski, M Vähämaa, M Woerkom Van, P Engel, P Hieronymi, PD Trapnell, Plato, R Feldman, RM Chisholm, RM Chisholm, T Burkart, T Nagel, T Sato, V Tiberius, W Ransome, WJ Silva Filho   +56 more
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Escape from Willful Hermeneutical Ignorance

Journal of Extreme Anthropology
This article analyzes Ulf Stark’s children’s book The Runaways as a narrative of age-based epistemic marginalization. Drawing on feminist epistemology, the author identifies ageism as an epistemic problem with profound ethical implications. The analysis
Cathrine Grimsgaard
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A “Weak” Reflection on Unpredictability and Social Theory

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2010
This concise reflection seeks to comprehensively interconnect the well-established theoretical and methodological logic of self-organization with a new reflexive ethos and aesthetic of epistemic modesty and humility.
Charalambos Tsekeris, Konstantinos Koskinas   +1 more
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Reasons, reflection, and repugnance [PDF]

, 2016
In this chapter we draw comparisons between Kass’ views on the normative authority of repugnance and social intuitionist accounts of moral judgement which are similarly sceptical about the role of reasoned reflection in moral ...
Kennett, Jeanette, McConnell, Doug
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Writing Ourselves Otherwise: Representation, Specularity, and Epistemic Humility

Krisis
Sylvia Wynter seeks nothing less than a redescription of the human, an ecumenical self-representation that would overcome the violent exclusions of coloniality and overturn the reign of Man.
Christopher Griffin
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The Unity of Space in Kant’s Pre-Critical Philosophy

Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022
Much recent attention has been paid to Kant’s account of the unity of space in the Critique of Pure Reason, not least because of the significant implications of that view for other key critical-period doctrines.
Dai Heide
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Epistemic Humility and Science in Lady Mary Shepherd

Journal of Modern Philosophy
This discussion analyzes Lady Mary Shepherd’s response to the skeptical question raised by Hume about necessary causation: how can we know that like causes will necessarily give rise to like effects?
Nathan Beaucage
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Testimony, Faith and Humility [PDF]

, 2020
© Cambridge University Press 2020.It is sometimes claimed that faith is a virtue. To what extent faith is a virtue depends on what faith is. One construal of faith, which has been popular in both recent and historical work on faith, is that faith is a ...
Malcolm, Finlay
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