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The Skeptic's Skeptic

Scientific American, 2010
The author opines regarding the evaluation of science and pseudoscience while praising the skills of logician Christopher Hitchens in doing so. The author notes instances of Hitchens' commentary on unsound science including a display of quackery by an Indian medicine man and the flaws of creationism reflected in an episode of the television series ...
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Counterfactual skepticism is (just) skepticism

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2023
AbstractCounterfactual 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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Skeptical of Skeptics

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1991
Skepticism permeates our profession. It is ingrained during medical training and reinforced by professional experience. Who among us has not repeatedly seen claims for fourth-generation drugs with no side effects, new operations that yield glowing results with minimal complications, or the latest infallible, high-tech diagnostic procedure...
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SKEPTICAL ABDUCTION

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 1993
Abduction is the process of generating the best explanation as to why a fact is observed given what is already known. A real problem in this area is the selective generation of hypotheses that have some reasonable prospect of being valid. In this paper, we propose the notion of skeptical abduction as a model to face this problem.
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Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Humean Skepticism

2020
AbstractRichard 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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Skepticism About Loss of Skepticism!

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1991
To 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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Underdetermination Skepticism and Skeptical Dogmatism

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2015
The Mundane World Hypothesis (mwh) says that we have material bodies, we have brains located inside our bodies, we have sense organs which process visual information, the direct cause of our perceptual judgments is typically macroscopic material objects, and we live in a material world.
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Skepticism and Climate Change Skepticism

2013
We 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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Skepticism, Mitigated Skepticism, and Contextualism

1996
My 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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Skeptics

2020
The rise of ordinalism in Economics. Interaction with the Vienna Circle. Use of Edgeworth’s indifference curves to explain market behaviour. Different kinds of Ordinalism. Pareto optimality. Preference from choice behavior.
Louis Narens, Brian Skyrms
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