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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Belief and doubt"”.
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Triptych 1
… life in the 21st century, to give weight and texture to the virtues and contradictions of what Cornel West called "the most absurd and alluring mode of being in the world." Borrowing from the traditions of psychological realism, Christian existentialism, and American minimalism, these …
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Open- and closed-mindedness, belief-discrepant communication behavior, and tolerance for dissonance
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Communication, 1966
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Decoding belief: neural mechanisms of conspiracy message evaluation
Conspiracy theories present emotionally salient and socially consequential information that may influence credibility evaluation, particularly in online environments where social cues are prevalent. Although behavioral predictors of conspiracy belief have been widely studied, little is known about …
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The Context-Sensitivity of Rationality and Knowledge
My dissertation argues that the beliefs, desires, and preferences that count as rational may change from one deliberative context to another. The argument rests on the premise that rational deliberation requires one to identify all the possibilities that are relevant to a decision problem. How does …
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Who we are in the world: an investigation into psychology and worldview
… the heart of Psychology is the search for understanding — understanding ourselves, understanding others, and understanding our places in the world. At one point or another a person comes to ask themselves fundamental questions about human life, like “Who am I?”, “Why am I here?” and “What will …
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Descartes' Slight and Metaphysical Doubt
… introspection so that he can replace his former beliefs about his mind's nature and activities with an account of self-knowledge that is immune from doubt. Just as he must show that reason and sense perception are sources of knowledge because they can withstand his skeptical challenges, he must …
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Doubt, Faith, and the World to Come in Peter of Cornwall's Book of Revelations
… dissertation explores the relationship between doubt and faith as it appears in a large collection of visions and revelations from the turn of the thirteenth century, entitled the Liber revelationum, or the Book of Revelations. The Liber revelationum was compiled in London by an Augustinian …
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Religions of Doubt: Religion, Critique, and Modernity in Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Walter Benjamin
Religions of Doubt: Religion, Critique, and Modernity in Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Walter Benjamin is a work of comparative philosophy addressing selected works of the Iranian novelist and political thinker Jalal Al-e Ahmad and the German-Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. I demonstrate that …
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Cognitive Accessibility of Racial Stereotypes, Beliefs, and Self-esteem in Black and White College Students
… of racial stereotypes existed in black and white college students. It was hypothesized that cognitive accessibility of racial stereotypes would occur and would be displayed by differential reaction times to stereotypes following the racial categories of black and white. In addition, the …