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Sobre o ceticismo moderado de Mersenne, Gassendi e Hume [PDF]

Princípios, 2009
Ultimately a great deal of attention has been placed on studying moderated skepticism in modern times. The famous historian philosopher, Richard Popkin, in his work The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza, coined the name epistemological ...
Flávio Miguel de Oliveira Zimmermann
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Skeptical hypotheses and moral skepticism [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2013
Moral skeptics maintain that we do not have moral knowledge. Traditionally they haven't argued via skeptical hypotheses like those provided by perceptual skeptics about the external world, such as Descartes' deceiving demon. But some believe this can be done by appealing to hypotheses like moral nihilism.
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Davison on Skepticism: How not to Respond to the Skeptic

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2005
In his defense of a coherence theory of truth and knowledge, Donald Davidson insists that (i) we must take the objects of a belief to be the causes of that belief, and (ii) given the nature of beliefs, most of our be-liefs are veridical.
Otávio Bueno
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Levd skepticism i Karin Boyes Kallocain

Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap
This article examines what Karin Boye's dystopian novel Kallocain (1940) knows about other-minds skepticism, and the conditions for understanding the inner lives of other people.
Ingeborg Löfgren
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Doubt and dogmatism in Cicero’s Academica

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2019
The objective is to show the peculiar way in which Cicero’s philosophical thinking is original and distances itself from the main representatives of the New Academy: the Roman thinker does not practice epoche, nor does he assign any special role to it in
Alexandre Skvirsky
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« Ever step you take is forever » : fin de l’héroïsme et vacuité spirituelle dans No Country for Old Men

Revue LISA, 2023
Joel and Ethan Coen’s take on No Country for Old Men can be seen as even darker and more pessimistic than the text it stems from. Addressing more directly two of their favorite themes, namely existential misplacement and the end of heroism, they bring a ...
Martin Berny
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Alguns aspectos da compreensão hegeliana do ceticismo antigo a partir da crítica ao ceticismo de Gottlob Ernst Schulze

DoisPontos, 2007
In 1802 Hegel publishes in Jena “On the Relationship of Skepticism to Philosophy”. This article has the objective of criticizing the skepticism of Gottlob Ernst Schulze.
Luiz Fernando Barrére Martin
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Modern Literature as a Form of Discourse and Knowledge of Society

Sociologias
Since the 1960’s, epistemological skepticism and constructionism have had a firm position in literary studies. Structuralism’s late phase, post-structuralism, certain sub-branches of current narratology, and certain representatives of recent sociology of
Erkki Sevänen
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In Pursuit of True Wisdom: How the Re-Emergence of Classical Wonder Should Replace Descartes’s Neo-Averrostic Sophistry

Studia Gilsoniana, 2020
Modern mathematical physics often claims to make philosophy obsolete. This presentation aims to show that the modern concept of wisdom fundamentally diverges with the thinking of Descartes, that, strictly speaking, at least in his metaphysical first ...
Jason Nehez
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Beyond Scientism and Skepticism: An Integrative Approach to Global Mental Health

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2015
The global burden of disorders has shifted from infectious disease to non-communicable diseases, including neuropsychiatric disorders. Whereas infectious disease can sometimes be combated by targeting single causal mechanisms, such as prevention of ...
Dan J Stein, Judy eIlles
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