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Doubting Thomas: Aquinas on Doubt and the Act of Faith

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 310-330, July 2025.
Abstract Several modern theologians affirm that doubt is compatible with faith, even as authoritative voices from the Christian tradition deny this. While Thomas Aquinas is often seen as an exemplar of the traditional view, few scholars have devoted serious attention to the nature of doubt in Thomas’ thought.
Patrick X. Gardner
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Philosophy Untouched by Science? Zeno’s Runner, Sextus’ Epochē, and More

Philosophies
The relationship between science and philosophy is contentious. Quine saw philosophy as continuous with science (broadly understood), but many philosophers see a dichotomy between them.
Josef Mattes
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What do we do when we suspend judgement?

Philosophical Issues, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 253-270, October 2024.
Abstract According to a classical view, suspension of judgement is, like belief and disbelief, a cognitive state. However, as some authors (Crawford 2022; Lord 2020; McGrath 2021a, 2021b; Sosa 2019, 2021) have pointed out, to suspend judgement is also to perform a certain mental action.
Anne Meylan
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Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value? [PDF]

, 2019
My purpose in this paper is to examine whether Pyrrhonian skepticism, as this stance is described in Sextus Empiricus’s extant works, has practical or epistemic value.
Machuca, Diego E.
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Can a skeptic be pious and why would he be? Lessons from ancient Pyrrhonism [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
The Pyrrhonian skeptics argue that we should suspend belief about everything because, according to them, there are mutually exclusive accounts for and against every object of investigation, and because there are no good reasons to prefer either of the ...
Stojanović Pavle
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Cartesian Humility and Pyrrhonian Passivity: The Ethical Significance of Epistemic Agency [PDF]

, 2016
While the Academic sceptics followed the plausible as a criterion of truth and guided their practice by a doxastic norm, so thinking that agential performances are actions for which the agent assumes responsibility, the Pyrrhonists did not accept ...
Gómez-Alonso, Modesto
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PIERRE BAYLE HISTORIEN DE LA PHILOSOPHIE: UN SONDAGE

Lexicon Philosophicum, 2017
The critical tradition reduces Bayle’s philosophy to Pyrrhonism and avoids the analysis of his arguments by jumping to the conclusion that he aims to establish the uncertainty of all philosophical reasoning.
ANTONY MCKENNA
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O Neopirronismo, os Problemas Filosóficos e o Pragmatismo

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 1999
In his interesting, original and well organized paper "O Ceticismo Pirrônico e os Problemas Filosóficos" Oswaldo Porchat Pereira reinterprets ancient Pyrrhonism and claims a new domain for the philosophical activity, namely the "phenomenic" one.
Paulo R. Margutti
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Plutarque juge et partie : à propos des débats entre l’Académie, le Jardin et le Portique

Aitia, 2013
In this article I show:(1) Plutarch’s inclusion of Heraclitus among the list of Presocratics at Adv. Col. 1121E-1122A should lead us to conclude that this philosopher was included by the New Academy among those ...
Carlos Lévy
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Crise e Consciência : ensaio sobre a descristianização de Portugal no século XVII [PDF]

Via Spiritus, 2016
It is the purpose of this paper to understand unbelief and religious indifference in early modern Portugal, based on a retrospective analysis starting from the transition from XVIIth to XVIIIth century back to early seventeenth-century.
António Vitor Ribeiro
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