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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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Ezumezu Logical System as a Sceptical Trend in Contemporary African Philosophy
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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Pour une critique sceptique de la pragmatique transcendantale de K. O. Apel
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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‘A Roar of Wings’: Faith, Scepticism, the Sublime in Medbh McGuckian’s The Book of the Angel
Medbh McGuckian’s main epistemologies in The Book of the Angel (2004) are aesthetic, religious, and poetic. The critical apparatus of this essay consists of the aesthetics of the sublime and beautiful from the eighteenth century (Edmund Burke and ...
Jefferson Holdridge
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Pascal a problem sceptycyzmu (Pascal and the Problem of Scepticism) [PDF]
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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This article explores crucial concepts of Stanley Cavell's moral perfectionism by asking: what does it mean to watch Mad Men closely? Matthew Weiner's TV show's portrayal of the ordinary, the familiar, adulthood, gender and social issues does not beg to ...
Ignasi Mena, Toni Ramoneda
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Shaping Scepticism, Arousing Belief [PDF]
The visceral responses of theatrical audiences to Othello across time and place clash oddly with the scepticism often ascribed to this play, and famously discussed in Stanley Cavell’s seminal work, Disowning Knowledge (2003). The debate aroused by Cavell’
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The Berger extravagant raises a debate on demonic possession which ends as a « coup de théâtre ». The narrator himself is doubting. Therefore, one can read the text attributed to the writer Onésime de Claireville as a philosophical fiction on the ...
Amélie Blanckaert
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Sceptical Overkill: On Two Recent Arguments Against Scepticism [PDF]
This paper is a discussion of a recent attempt by Crispin Wright to force at least some varieties of external world scepticism to succumb to a "head-on, rational response", contrary to well-known expressions of pessimism by, for example, Sir Peter ...
O'Hara, Kieron
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