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Scepticism about Scepticism [PDF]
Philosophy, 2015 Skeptical arguments are intuitively gripping. Or at least they seem to be. They readily capture the imagination and curiosity of beginners in philosophy. The arguments are easy to state but seemingly impossible to answer.
Zangwill, Nick
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Resemblance, Representation and Scepticism: The Metaphysical Role of Berkeley’s Likeness Principle
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022 Berkeley’s likeness principle states that only an idea can be like an idea. In this paper, I argue that the principle should be read as a premise only in a metaphysical argument showing that matter cannot instantiate anything like the sensory properties ...
David Bartha
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Emotional intelligence as a key driver of the formation of professional scepticism in auditors
South African Journal of Business Management, 2023 Purpose: Litigation against auditors has augmented as the number of corporate failures increased over the past decades. A failure to exercise professional scepticism has been cited as one of the main contributing factors to audit failure.
Sonja Cilliers
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Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2021 Hume's epistemological legacy is often perceived as a predominantly negative sceptical one. His infamous problem of induction continues to perplex philosophers to this day, and many of his sceptical worries maintain their interest in contemporary eyes (e.
Qu Hsueh
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Stanley Cavell and Film: Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema, by Catherine Wheatley
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2021 Stanley Cavell and Film is Catherine Wheatley’s entry in Bloomsbury’s “Film Thinks”, a series dedicated to explorations of cinema’s influence on thinkers such as Noël Carroll, Roland Barthes and Georges Didi-Huberman.
Glen W. Norton
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Philosophie und Literatur bei Cicero
Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik, 2022 This paper explores the relationship between philosophy and literature in the dialogues of Cicero. It argues that Cicero was a sceptic Roman philosopher who used the freedom permitted by his epistemological point of view to systematically present the ...
Meinolf Vielberg
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Product, services and technology review blogs
Communicare, 2022 While much research has been conducted on consumer skepticism about advertising, limited attention has been focused on the relationship between gender and scepticism.
Gené van Heerden
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Skeptisisme personal dan situasional terhadap keputusan audit: sebuah studi eksperimen
Jurnal Akuntansi, 2018 The study aims to examine the influence of personal and situational scepticism on audit judgement. Situational scepticism can be presented by audit experience from previous years (Client-Specific Experience).
Rudy Suryanto +2 more
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The Problem of God’s Existence: In Defence of Skepticism [PDF]
, 2015 There are four main positions in the argument about whether God exists: atheism, theism, agnosticism, and scepticism. From an epistemological standpoint, scepticism is the most rational; even if a decisive argument which would settle the debate has not ...
Ziemiński, Ireneusz
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La naturalidad del escepticismo
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2013 In this article I examine M. Williams’ antisceptical strategy of considering skepticism as an unnatural position philosophically charged, which for him implies that skepticism has nothing to do with our epistemic practices. I admit that this strategy is
Jesus Antonio Coll Mármol
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