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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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‘Policy scepticism’ and the impact of Scottish higher education institutions (HEIs) on their host region : accounting for regional budget constraints under devolution [PDF]
, 2012 A “policy scepticism” has emerged that challenges the results of conventional regional HEI impact analyses. Its denial of the importance of the expenditure impacts of HEIs appears to be based on a belief in either a binding regional resource constraint ...
Hermannsson, Kristinn +3 more
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Selective scepticism over thought: am I ever justified in doubting that I think that thought but not this one? [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper, I subject a number of statements avowing selective doubt about an act of thinking to philosophical analysis (e.g., "A thought occurred just now but I do not believe that I was thinking it") to ascertain those circumstances under which they
Young, G
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The Sources of Scepticism [PDF]
International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2005 It is claimed that the radical sceptical problem that is the focus of much of contemporary epistemological discussion in fact divides into two logically distinct sub-problems—a formulation that turns on the closure principle and a second formulation which turns on the underdetermination principle.
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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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Ezumezu Logical System as a Sceptical Trend in Contemporary African Philosophy
Arụmarụka, 2023 My aim in this paper is to tease out the sceptical dimension of Ezumezu logic, which is the logic that grounds the method of conversational thinking. I engage with the question of the place of scepticism in African philosophy and show that Ezumezu logic ...
Enyimba MADUKA
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The Basis of Debasing Scepticism [PDF]
, 2019 This paper purports to provide a fresh cashing out of Debasing Scepticism: the type of Scepticism put on the map in a recent article by Jonathan Schaffer, with a view to demonstrating that the Debasing Sceptic’s argument is not so easily dismissed as ...
Cunningham, Joe
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Pour une critique sceptique de la pragmatique transcendantale de K. O. Apel
Methodos, 2004 Among philosophical attempts to face the crisis of rationality, some of them emphasize the necessity of grounding its refoundation on presuppositionless principles. K.O.
Frédéric Cossutta
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Entitlement, epistemic risk and scepticism [PDF]
, 2021 Crispin Wright maintains that the architecture of perceptual justification is such that we can acquire justification for our perceptual beliefs only if we have antecedent justification for ruling out any sceptical alternative.
Moretti, Luca
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Pascal a problem sceptycyzmu (Pascal and the Problem of Scepticism) [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2011 Scepticism is a doctrine which holds the possibilities of knowledge to be limited. There are many types of scepticism (practical /theoretical, partial/total, moderate/ radical, etc). Scepticism as a philosophy began with Pyrrho of Elis (365–275 BC).
Ryszard Kleszcz
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