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Marriage and Its Representations in Classical Hollywood Comedy (19341945) : Stanley Cavell, the Concept of Skepticism and Kierkegaards Legacy

Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 2018
This article explores the questions of marriage and divorce as discussed by Stanley Cavell in his study of classical Hollywood comedies, in which he considered a popular subgenre of the American comedy of the thirties and forties that he dubbed the ...
El-Khoury, Toufic Ishaia
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Wittgenstein and Poetry: A Reading of Czeslaw Milosz’s “Realism”

Philosophies
In this paper I hope to cast light on Wittgenstein enigmatic remark, “one should really only create philosophy poetically”. I discuss Wittgenstein’s ambition to overcome metaphysics by way of an appeal to ordinary language.
David Macarthur
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Contemporary Reception of Rene Descartes’ Mysticism [PDF]

Философия и космология, 2017
The article aim is to turn the spotline on the main thesis of refl ection of Descartes’ skepticism doctrine as well one’s argumentation estimation at the context of thinker’s creativeness.
Volodymyr Khmil, Anatolyj Malivskij
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Skeptical Hypotheses and Moral Skepticism

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2020
May (2013) argues that moral skepticism is less plausible than perceptual skepticism if it’s formulated using epistemic closure (hereafter the implausibility thesis). In this paper, I argue we should be skeptical of the implausibility thesis. Moral skepticism can be formulated using closure if we combine moral nihilism with a properly formulated ...
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Increasing Diversity in Emerging Non-religious Communities

Secularism and Nonreligion, 2014
Contemporary growth in non-religious populations has given rise to novel communities with unique perspectives on social issues. We describe a study of diversity within speakers at conferences organised by and attended by the atheist community. We analyse
Christopher Hassall, Ian Bushfield
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Ancient Skepticism: The Skeptical Academy

Philosophy Compass, 2011
Abstract Ancient philosophy knew two main skeptical traditions: the Pyrrhonian and the Academic. In this final paper of the three‐part series devoted to ancient skepticism, I present some of the topics about Academic skepticism which have recently been much debated in the specialist literature. I will be concerned with the outlooks of
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El argumento antiescéptico de Davidson como punto de convergencia de innovaciones radicales

Areté, 2010
El artículo expone el argumento antiescéptico de Davidson; pero, en el análisis del argumento y de las respuestas a sus críticos, va quedando claro que los argumentos e instrumentos utilizados en este y otros puntos de la obra de Davidson implican la ...
Ricardo Navia
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Identifying the Actual Impact of Online Social Interactions on Demand

Asia Marketing Journal
Firms often engage in manipulating online reviews as a promotional activity to influence consumers' evaluation on their products. With the prevalence of the promotional activities, consumers may notice and discount the reviews generated by the ...
Dong Soo Kim
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Gilson on Dogmatism [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana, 2016
The article aims at uncovering reasons why philosophy may become conducive to dogmatism which inevitably leads to the failure of philosophy. In the light of Gilson’s considerations contained in his The Unity of Philosophical Experience, the author ...
Michael Nnamdi Konye
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Skeptical Theism Unscathed: Why Skeptical Objections to Skeptical Theism Fail

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2019
AbstractArguments from evil purport to show that some fact about evil makes it (at least) probable that God does not exist. Skeptical theism is held to undermine many versions of the argument from evil: it is thought to undermine a crucial inference that such arguments often rely on.
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