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Rational skepticism: A scientific review of Witts' (2018) criticisms of the PEAK relational training system

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2019
Witts' (2018) review of the peer‐reviewed research on the PEAK‐Direct Training Module (Dixon, 2014) yielded a divergent conclusion from that of previous reviews (Reed & Luiselli, 2016; Dixon, Belisle, McKeel et al., 2017). Witts advocates for skepticism of this research due to methodological shortcomings, hyperclaiming of results, and inappropriate
Jordan, Belisle, Mark R, Dixon
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Augustine’s and Montaigne’s Deployments of Skepticism Against Religious Rationalism

2020
This chapter examines one of the sources of Montaigne’s use of skepticism against the Reformation in his Apology for Raymond Sebond, namely, Augustine’s deployment of Academic skepticism against Manicheanism. The particular kind of religious rationalism combatted by Montaigne and the political danger it posed in his time required a radicalization of ...
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Navigating Skepticism: Cognitive Insights and Bayesian Rationality in Pinillos’ Why We Doubt

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism
Abstract Pinillos’ Why We Doubt presents a powerful critique of such global skeptical assertions as “I don’t know I am not a brain-in-a-vat (biv)” by introducing a cognitive mechanism that is sensitive to error possibilities and a Bayesian rule of rationality that this mechanism is designed to approximate.
Chad Gonnerman, John Philip Waterman
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Prototype-Based Judgements and Skepticism about Rationality in Naturalized Epistemology

1996
Modern epistemology was born in the old days of Descartes and Locke from an implicit acceptance of the main thesis of Pyrrhonic skepticism. Some skeptic philosophers from the New Academy attempted to reach the state of ataraxia as a moral aim. That state of mind putatively would be caused by the suspension of the judgement epoche about things or causes
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Rationalism, Pragmatism, Skepticism:

2023
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Skepticism and Rationality: Critical Review of Skeptical Modes in the Face of the Rise of Populism and Polarization

2023
Las sociedades contemporáneas están sufriendo, en muchos casos, procesos de polarización política acompañados de otros elementos  igualmente  preocupantes  para  el  funcionamiento  de  la  democracia. El  aumento  de  la  presencia  del discurso demagógico en el ámbito político no hace sino dificultar el correcto funcionamiento de las instituciones ...
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Rational combinations of targeted cancer therapies: background, advances and challenges

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022
Haojie Jin, Liqin Wang, Rene Bernards
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Rationalism, Empiricism, and Skepticism: The Curious Case of Maimon’s “Coalition-System”

2014
In the preface to the first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant describes skeptics as “a kind of nomads who abhor all permanent cultivation of the soil,” and who on occasion “shattered the civil unity” of rational dogmatism (Aix). Kant’s dim view of skepticism as the adversary of rationalism is, I take it, one that is widely shared. There are,
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Skeptical Rationalism

Inquiry, 1979
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Targeting oxidative stress in disease: promise and limitations of antioxidant therapy

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2021
Henry Jay Forman
exaly