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Doubting Thomas: Aquinas on Doubt and the Act of Faith
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 310-330, July 2025.Abstract Several modern theologians affirm that doubt is compatible with faith, even as authoritative voices from the Christian tradition deny this. While Thomas Aquinas is often seen as an exemplar of the traditional view, few scholars have devoted serious attention to the nature of doubt in Thomas’ thought.
Patrick X. Gardner
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Plutarch's Adversus Colotem and the Cyrenaics: 1120C-1121E
Aitia, 2013 A reading of Plutarch’s Adversus Colotem, 1120C-1121E, with reference to other surviving evidence for Cyrenaic epistemology. In particular, the discussion evaluates two claims made by Plutarch: (1) that Colotes is right to argue ...
James Warren
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Epistemic Abstainers, Epistemic Martyrs, and Epistemic Converts [PDF]
, 2010 An intuitive view regarding the epistemic significance of disagreement says that when epistemic peers disagree, they should suspend judgment. This abstemious view seems to embody a kind of detachment appropriate for rational beings; moreover, it seems to
Aikin, Scott F. +2 more
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Evidentialism, justification, and knowledge‐first
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 22-46, March 2025.Abstract This paper examines the relationship between evidentialism, knowledge‐first epistemology, (E=K) in particular, and justification. Evidentialism gives an account of justified belief in terms of evidence but is silent on the nature of evidence. Knowledge‐first tells us what evidence is but stands in need of an agreed account of justification. So
Alexander Bird
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Skeptical Fideism in Cicero’s De Natura Deorum [PDF]
, 2019 The work of Richard H. Popkin both introduced the concept of skeptical fideism and served to impressively document its importance in the philosophies of a diverse range of thinkers, including Montaigne, Pascal, Huet, and Bayle.
Ribeiro, Brian
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Scientific Realism, Adaptationism and the Problem of the Criterion [PDF]
, 2015 Scientific Realism (SR) has three crucial aspects: 1) the centrality of the concept of truth, 2) the idea that success is a reliable indicator of truth, and 3) the idea that the Inference to the Best Explanation is a reliable inference rule.
Sterpetti, Fabio
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On the nature of ceramics technology: from Empedocles to Dawkins
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 55-71, February 2025.Abstract This contribution discusses salient aspects of the development of ceramics technology from its invention to the present, and the role ceramics have played during the cultural development and technological progress of ancient and modern societies. The conjecture is being advanced that the transformation of ceramic production modes from holistic,
Robert B. Heimann
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Prilozi Instituta za Arheologiju u Zagrebu, 2020 Roman building materials, especially brick and tiles (tegulae and imbex) marked a new era in the architecture of Roman Dalmatia. While imported materials seem to still form the bulk of the evidence, recently identified and definitely located local ...
Ana Konestra +2 more
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De nuevo sobre la serie RRC 235 de SEX•POM [PDF]
Revista Numismática Hécate, 2015 Within the coinage of the gens Pompeia, the first and one of the most interesting series was made by Sextus Pompeius, grandfather of Pompey the Great, who issued a denarius, dated in the year 137 BC, in which Romulus and Remus are suckled by a she-wolf ...
Luis Amela Valverde
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Can an ancient Greek sceptic be eudaimôn (or happy)? And what difference does the answer make to us?
Revista de Filosofia Antiga, 2012 The paper explores how far the ancient Greek sceptics in fact accept, and how far they should accept, the central Greek ethical notion of eudaimonia, usually translated "happiness" - and what, if anything, the answers may tell us today. The first section
Richard Bett
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