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Cynic Shamelessness in Late Sixteenth-Century French Texts [PDF]

, 2013
This article examines the diverse responses elicited by ancient Cynicism's sexual shamelessness in a wide range of sixteenth-century French texts. The outrageous performance of the Cynics, including public sex and masturbation, was always designed to ...
Roberts, Hugh
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Davison on Skepticism: How not to Respond to the Skeptic

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2005
In his defense of a coherence theory of truth and knowledge, Donald Davidson insists that (i) we must take the objects of a belief to be the causes of that belief, and (ii) given the nature of beliefs, most of our be-liefs are veridical.
Otávio Bueno
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Roman et Histoire : de la condamnation à la justification / Novel and History: from condemnation to justification

Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies
During the latter half of the 17th century, both history and the novel fell victim to an identity crisis, finding themselves in a precarious position. On the one hand, historical Pyrrhonism disrupted the way History was perceived, casting doubt on its ...
Laith Ibrahim
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Wittgenstein and pyrrhonism

Cuadernos salmantinos de filosofía, 2022
The aim of this paper is to assess Wittgenstein’s later philosophy relation to skepticism. Despite the fact that he explicitly rejects it, it is argued that his conception of philosophy has strong affinities to ancient Pyrrhonism, and not to Human skepticism, as some claim.
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Prospects For Peircean Epistemic Infinitism [PDF]

, 2009
Epistemic infinitism is the view that infinite series of inferential relations are productive of epistemic justification. Peirce is explicitly infinitist in his early work, namely his 1868 series of articles.
Aikin, Scott F.
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George Santayana and emotional distance in philosophy and politics [PDF]

George Santayana (1863-1952) appears emotionally distant and personally uncommitted in many of his writings. In what may have been a related phenomenon, he does not seem to have committed to any school of philosophy, but rather to draw from many of the ...
Laursen, John Christian, Román Alcalá, Ramón   +1 more
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Disagreement and Pyrrhonism

, 2022
The traditional understanding of Pyrrhonism claims that the Pyrrhonist suspends judgment on all claims. This is because the arguments the Pyrrhonist uses seems to undermine the possibility of justified belief. The most famous of these arguments for the impossibility of justified belief is ‘Agrippa’s trilemma.’ This argument says that any attempt to ...
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The history of cataract surgery: from couching to phacoemulsification. [PDF]

Ann Transl Med, 2020
Leffler CT, Klebanov A, Samara WA, Grzybowski A.   +3 more
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Conservatism

, 2015
Conservatism is a political ideology which problematizes change, resists modernity and values stability, tradition and order. It emerged in the Enlightenment (often in reaction to it), in the work of Hume, Montesquieu, Madison and Burke, but its roots go
O'Hara, Kieron
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Greek and Roman Logic [PDF]

, 2019
In ancient philosophy, there is no discipline called “logic” in the contemporary sense of “the study of formally valid arguments.” Rather, once a subfield of philosophy comes to be called “logic,” namely in Hellenistic philosophy, the field includes ...
Finley, Robby, Vlasits, Justin, Vogt, Katja Maria   +2 more
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