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Showing 1 to 20 of 235 for “"Skepticism"”.
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Skepticism avoided
I evaluate three replies to skepticism, drawing conclusions about the meaning of "justified", the viability of foundationalism, the value of knowledge, and the role of belief in rational action. In the first chapter, I examine the following skeptical argument: Something is justified only if …
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Maimon's Post-Kantian Skepticism
… it remains unclear to what degree Maimon’s skepticism is internal to the Kantian framework, and how this skepticism is related to Maimon’s so-called dogmatic rationalism. The central aim of this project is to present Maimon’s as a distinct form of post-Kantian skepticism: one which poses …
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Kant, Skepticism, and Moral Sensibility
… Critique addresses a rather troubling form of skepticism: skepticism about moral motivation.In the course of defending this claim, I provide an alternative reading of the development of Kant’s project of moral justification from Groundwork III to the second Critique. Against a wide-spread view …
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Reasoning one's way out of skepticism
… I consider a common reason for complacency about skepticism. Many contemporary philosophers reject the skeptic's conclusion on the grounds that mere philosophical argument can't rationally undermine common sense. I consider the standard arguments for this view and find them wanting. I then argue …
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The Influence of Affect Regulation on Professional Skepticism
Variances in professional skepticism are a primary cause of audit deficiencies, and thus understanding how these variations happen is of keen interest to practitioners, standard-setter, and regulators so that they can better manage professional skepticism. To this end, academics have created …
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Self Esteem: Its Overall Effect on Professional Skepticism
… an auditor’s self-esteem and professional skepticism. Results show that positive and goal-oriented performance evaluations do increase an auditor’s self-esteem and supportive performance evaluations increase an auditor’s professional skepticism. These results provide valuable information to …
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Hegel's critique of skepticism: concept, judgment, and syllogism
… science in the face of Pyrrhonian skepticism. It argues that his account of the topics of traditional logic in the Science of Logic justifies Pyrrhonism because his account is impervious to Pyrrhonism. The first chapter explicates Hegel’s essay “On the Relationship between …
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<i>Academicus ille Augustinus</i>? Augustine’s Rehabilitation of Academic skepticism
… his conversion, Augustine had rejected Academic skepticism—or had he? In this thesis, I argue that Augustine did not wholly refute this philosophical method, most famously practiced by Cicero and his Greek predecessors, but that he rehabilitated it for the purpose of hiding, defending, and …
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Combatting Skepticism Against Religious Nationalism (With A Special Focus On Pakistan)
The purpose of this thesis was to take an in-depth look at the arguments made by scholars against religious nationalism. These scholars believe that the added influence of religion in nationalism makes it take a turn for the worse. To determine whether this is truly the case, a set of the main …
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Science, the Self, and Skepticism: Posthuman Fictions of Post-1960s France
… its rise out of antihumanism, philosophical skepticism, and scientific materialism) and assesses the strange subjectivity that posthumanism calls for us to inhabit. It studies three pictures of the posthuman self (humans as matter, humans as animals, humans as networks) derived from the …
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Understanding Travel Promotional Narratives: The Influence of Narrative Transportation and Skepticism
… findings, indicating that message cue, skepticism towards travel articles, skepticism towards travel brochures, travel experience to Charleston, gender, and age had a significant influence on participants' skepticism towards travel articles, participants' skepticism towards travel …
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IN SEARCH OF ADEQUATE FAITH: RELIGIOUS SKEPTICISM IN GERMAN LETTERS (1750-1800)
… “In Search of Adequate Faith: Religious Skepticism in German Letters (1750–1800),” is an interdisciplinary study exploring the religious writings of Klopstock, Lessing, and Novalis. During the mid- to late-eighteenth century the struggle to articulate a distinctly modern faith becomes …
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The Effect of Nondiagnostic Information on Internal Auditor Skepticism: Capturing the Dilution Effect
… into their judgment, showing decreased skepticism when irrelevant information contradicts preconceived stereotypes of management, known as the dilution effect and attributed to the representativeness heuristic. Irrelevant information consistent with preconceived stereotypes does not …
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What Makes For Credible Religious Testimony? Exploring Belief And Skepticism About Others' Religious Experiences
This thesis examines the role of testimony in the formation and transmission of religious beliefs, focusing on the factors that influence its perceived credibility. Testimony is vital for sharing and reinforcing beliefs about experiences that cannot be directly tested, as is often the case with …
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How to Be a Pragmatist in the End: Objectivity, Skepticism, and the Demands of Agency
… externalism into an adequate response to skepticism. Finally and in consequence, pragmatism's most fruitful contribution to thinking about objectivity turns out not to lie in its treatments of meaning and truth, but in its independent epistemology: specifically, in Peirce’s and Sellars’s …
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Impact of EU's Decisions on Euro-Skepticism of Two Turkish Nationalist and Religious Peripheral Parties
… nationalism-based, and religion-based Euro-skepticism, measuring the impact of the EU's decisions on overall Euro-skepticism, and searching and investigating the reasons behind Euro-skepticism in detail by conducting content analysis on statements of two Turkish nationalist and religious …
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Constructive skepticism and the philosophy of science of Gassendi and Locke (Pierre Gassendi, John Locke)
In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, empiricists such as Pierre Gassendi and John Locke accounted for the human capacity to know about the world by emphasizing sensory access to information. These philosophers entertained skepticist doubts concerning reasoned knowledge and concluded that sure …
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The dreamer awakes : semantic and metaphysical presuppositions in skepticism about knowledge of the external world
Barry Stroud sees global skepticism, in regard to our knowledge of the external world, as a threat to the claims of modern epistemology. An exchange between Susan Haack and Richard Rorty illustrates the situation of contemporary epistemology. For Michael Williams, the skeptic trades on …
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