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The Art of Skepticism and the Skepticism of Art
Philosophy Today, 2009The world is woven all of dream and error And but one sureness in our truth may lie That when we hold to aught our thinking's mirror We know it not by knowing it thereby . . . We know the world is false, not what is true. Yet we think on. Fernando Pessoa At the beginning there was a call. After a while, somebody answered.
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Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Humean Skepticism
2020AbstractRichard Popkin famously argued that David Hume “maintained the only consistent Pyrrhonian point of view”; yet Hume explicitly rejected Pyrrhonism, as he understood it, in favor of a mitigated “Academic” skepticism. The keys to understanding Hume’s relationship to Pyrrhonism lie partly in his own historical understanding of it, but even more in ...
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Counterfactual skepticism is (just) skepticism
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2023AbstractCounterfactual skepticism says that most ordinary counterfactuals are false. While few endorse counterfactual skepticism, the precise costs of the view are disputed and not generally well‐understood. I have two aims in this paper. My first and primary aim is to establish, on grounds acceptable to all parties, that counterfactual skepticism is ...
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Oakeshott’s Skepticism and the Skeptical Traditions
European Journal of Political Theory, 2005English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-90) called himself a skeptic at various times, and yet his writings reveal little or no engagement with either of the major Hellenistic skeptical traditions, Pyrrhonism and Academic skepticism. Although he argued that the best way to understand ourselves is to look at the mirror of our intellectual ...
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Skepticism and Climate Change Skepticism
2013We argue that the climate change debate has been plagued with confusions resulting from the fact that the word “skepticism” has been given positive connotations. Many people, including a number of professional philosophers and scientists, regard skepticism as an intellectual virtue, and as a particularly scientific virtue at that.
David Coady, Richard Corry
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Nietzsche on the Skeptics and Nietzsche as Skeptic
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 2000Etude de la reference aux Sceptiques grecs, en particulier, et au scepticisme, en general, dans la philosophie de Nietzsche. Examinant la culture philologique, ainsi que l'attitude du penseur face au scepticisme, l'A. s'interroge sur la possibilite d'une interpretation sceptique de la philosophie nietzscheenne dans son ensemble.
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Skepticism, Mitigated Skepticism, and Contextualism
1996My subject in this paper is a central thesis of Hume’s mitigated skepticism, that although radical skepticism has no theoretical solution it may nevertheless be a means to achieve a balanced and tranquil life. I begin by arguing that this is an untenable view: there is no justification for the claim that skeptical reflections are a means to tranquility
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The Skeptics Are Coming! The Skeptics Are Coming!
2004Abstract This essay explains a Pyrrhonian skepticism in contrast with Cartesian skepticism, and then argues that what externalists and contextualists oppose is only Cartesian skepticism. It contends that externalists and contextualists actually back themselves into a Pyrrhonist position because externalists give up the search for reasons
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Skepticism About Loss of Skepticism!
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1991To the Editor.— Alpert and Coles 1 started their December editorial, "Loss of Skepticism in Medical Education," with the "... pathology Professor's favorite words—How do you know that?" This pathology professor would like to ask them the same thing regarding their claim that the "medical school curriculum is hostage to the national board examination."
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