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In this work I argue for the unavoidability of the sceptical challenge and I outline a way to live with scepticism instead of attempting to refute it altogether. First I elucidate the way scepticism should be understood by looking at Sextus’ Pyrrhonism as the seminal sceptical position.
Tacca, Alessio
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Scepticism claims that there is always something that slips through the epistemologist’s grasp.Drawing on the tradition of scepticism within continental philosophy, this volume discusses how the sense of touch uncovers contradictions within our knowledge
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Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism [PDF]
This volume of collected essays seeks to tackle the question of scepticism in an Early Jewish context, including Ecclesiastes and other Jewish Second Temple works, rabbinic literature, and reflections of Jewish thought in early Christian and patristic ...
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Sceptical Paths Enquiry and Doubt from Antiquity to the Present [PDF]
Sceptical Paths gathers a variety of innovative studies that inquire into the presence and function of sceptical elements, strategies, and approaches in various traditions throughout Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and contemporary philosophy.
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Panoptic Vision of the World: Can a State of Emergency Become a Regular One?
Panoptic Vision of the World: Can a State of Emergency Become a Regular One? The object of interpretation of this text is several social aspects of the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic which have equivocal and contradictory meanings: state of ...
Katica Kulavkova
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The Sources of Scepticism [PDF]
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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Climate change is a political as well as an environmental issue. Climate change beliefs are commonly associated with voting behaviour, but are they associated with swings in voting behaviour?
Rod McCrea +3 more
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More and more times, the failure of the predictions did not consist in their insufficiently developed techniques. On the contrary, the more these techniques have evolved, the more the reflection of reality and human aspirations have ...
Fanel Stroe
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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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Qualitative research in journalism
Among communication researchers as well as journalists a growing scepticism and even disillusionment with regard to the validity, applicability and contribution of quantitative research models are becoming increasingly noticable.
A.S. de Beer
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