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Objective. Throughout history and across all cultures, many people have believed in some form of afterlife. Recent surveys show that most people worldwide believe they will survive after bodily death.
Helane Wahbeh +2 more
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Skepticism Motivated: On the Skeptical Import of Motivated Reasoning [PDF]
AbstractEmpirical work on motivated reasoning suggests that our judgments are influenced to a surprising extent by our wants, desires, and preferences (Kahan 2016; Lord, Ross, and Lepper 1979; Molden and Higgins 2012; Taber and Lodge 2006). How should we evaluate the epistemic status of beliefs formed through motivated reasoning?
Carter, J. Adam, McKenna, Robin
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PENGARUH FAKTOR-FAKTOR PERSONAL TERHADAP SKEPTISISME PROFESIONAL AUDITOR
The purpose of this study was to test the impact of personal factors to auditor’s professional skepticism at Non Big 4 audit firms in East Java. Personal factors which tested in this study were personality type, auditor’s sex, and audit experience ...
Dessy Larimbi +2 more
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Skeptical Thoughts Concerning Explanationism and Skepticism [PDF]
According to the explanationist, we can rely on inference to best explanation to justifiably believe familiar skeptical hypotheses are false. On this view, commonsense beliefs about the existence and character of familiar, medium-sized dry goods provides the best explanation of our evidence and so justifies our belief that we're not brains-in-vats ...
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The skeptic and the climate change skeptic [PDF]
Outside the philosophy classroom, global skeptics – skeptics about all (purported) knowledge of the external world – are rare. But there are people who describe themselves as “skeptics” about various more specific domains, including self-professed “skeptics” about the reality of anthropogenic climate change.
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How Dramatic Events Can Affect Emotionality in Social Posting: The Impact of COVID-19 on Reddit
The COVID-19 outbreak impacted almost all the aspects of ordinary life. In this context, social networks quickly started playing the role of a sounding board for the content produced by people.
Valerio Basile +2 more
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The paper explores the anti-skeptical bearing of the kind of hinge epistemology I have developed in Extended Rationality. A Hinge Epistemology. It focuses, in particular, on the moderate account of perceptual justification, the constitutive response put forward against Humean skepticism, and the denial of the unconditional validity of the Closure ...
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No more this than that: skeptical impression or Pyrrhonian dogma? [PDF]
This is a defense of Pyrrhonian skepticism against the charge that the suspension of judgment based on equipollence is vitiated by the assent given to the equipollence in question.
Necip Fikri Alican
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1. Aspects of Interpersonal Communication – the Exchange of Communicative Intentions
Communication is a complex process that always involves the exchange of communicative intentions. This paper is one of the efforts to contribute to the shaping of a hybrid theory of interpersonal communication that takes into account various perspectives.
Rusu Marinela
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La promesse de Lost (À propos de la Saison 2)
This essay deals with the themes of the leap of faith, the ritual and the sacrifice in the television show Lost, concentrating mainly on season 2. It questions Lost’s promise to spectator as far as narration is concerned.
Guillaume Dulong
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