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MORE SCEPTICISM ABOUT SCEPTICISM
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 1988Considering the difficulties for a modern reader of the writings on evidence of Bentham and Wigmore, it is pleasing to have a book,1 written with clarity and economy, which conveys the main ideas of each. Given his knowledge of those writings and of the intellectual history of evidence scholarship, few could be as well-qualified to write it as William ...
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The Physics Teacher, 1960
Science teaching, both in school and university, is geared very closely to utilitarian aims. Has it also an important contribution to make a liberal education? This article argues that it has, but that its opportunities are not being seized. Various ways of improving on the present state of affairs are discussed.
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Science teaching, both in school and university, is geared very closely to utilitarian aims. Has it also an important contribution to make a liberal education? This article argues that it has, but that its opportunities are not being seized. Various ways of improving on the present state of affairs are discussed.
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Sceptical theism and moral scepticism
Religious Studies, 2007Several theists have adopted a position known as ‘sceptical theism’, according to which God is justified in allowing suffering, but the justification is often beyond human comprehension. A problem for sceptical theism is that if there are unknown justifications for suffering, then we cannot know whether it is right for a human being to relieve ...
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Why there is reason to remain sceptical of Durston's scepticism
Religious Studies, 2006In this reply I argue that Durston's defence of his argument from the complexity of history ought to be unacceptable to the theist as it undermines not only common theistic attitudes towards God, such as gratitude and praise, but also the rationality of our ordinary moral practices.
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2021
AbstractChapter 6 addresses the problem of scepticism. More specifically, it focuses on a particularly difficult sceptical argument which proceeds from the plausible claims (i) that we don’t know that we are not radically deceived and (ii) that, if so, we don’t know much at all to the problematic sceptical conclusion that we don’t know much at all.
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AbstractChapter 6 addresses the problem of scepticism. More specifically, it focuses on a particularly difficult sceptical argument which proceeds from the plausible claims (i) that we don’t know that we are not radically deceived and (ii) that, if so, we don’t know much at all to the problematic sceptical conclusion that we don’t know much at all.
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V—Moral Scepticism and Inductive Scepticism
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1990Etymologically a sceptic, oKc?rSuKo, is an inquirer, or one who reflects. In this sense we should all be proud to be called sceptics. But the word was hijacked long ago by the followers of Pyrrho for the proponents of a particular kind of philosophizing.
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How sceptical is Kripke's ‘sceptical solution’?
Philosophia, 1998L'A. propose une nouvelle lecture de la solution sceptique au paradoxe sceptique developpee par S. Kripke dans son ouvrage intitule «Wittgenstein on rules and private language» (1982). Alors que l'interpretation commune de Kripke, representee par C. Travis, S. Blackburn et C.
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2020
Abstract Sceptics maintain that they cannot find any rational resolution of the apparent conflicts among different people’s views on ethics (among other things), and that their inability causes them to suspend judgment. In the face of variation among ethical beliefs between different people and different societies they recognize no ...
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Abstract Sceptics maintain that they cannot find any rational resolution of the apparent conflicts among different people’s views on ethics (among other things), and that their inability causes them to suspend judgment. In the face of variation among ethical beliefs between different people and different societies they recognize no ...
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