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Skepticism [PDF]

, 2019
Our focus will be some prominent ways in which scholars have tried to motivate skepticism about the rationality of religious belief and in the process make a case for atheism.
Pritchard, Duncan, Duncan Pritchard
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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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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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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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David Hume’s Mitigated Skepticism

, 2021
The main objective of this paper is to explain Hume’s skepticism as moderate skepticism. In section one, an explanation of Hume’s skepticism about the reality of the external world has been carried out in order to distinguish Humean skepticism from ...
B, Anandasagar
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Skepticism: Impractical, therefore implausible

, 2019
The truth of skepticism would be depressing and impractical. Our beliefs would be groundless, we would know nothing (or almost nothing) about the world around us, and epistemic success would likely be impossible.
Michael Hannon, Hannon, Michael
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Measuring Levels of Skepticism Towards Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Activities

, 2010
This study aims to examine how skepticism, as a personality trait, towards CSR initiatives of companies affects students’ decisions to reward (support by purchasing) or punish (by boycotting) companies for their behaviour.
Theofilou, Anastasios, Jerofejeva, Anna
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Disjunctivism and skepticism

, 2008
The paper explains what disjunctivism is and explores its implications for skepticism. Following an account of Paul Snowdon’s conception of a disjunctivist account of perceptual experience the the focus is on how disjunctivism has figured in the ...
Millar, Alan
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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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