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| | Peter Suber, "Classical Skepticism" |
 | | Skepticism in religion, for example, is not atheism. | | | Skeptics neither affirm nor deny that they have understood the dogmatist's position (II.1ff), that the tropes have eroded the claim of his dogmas to truth, or even that the tropes themselves are to be trusted (I.35). | | | For the myth of the Pyrrhonean skeptic is the myth of the merciless inquirer who took intellectual honesty most seriously, who followed all leads with no prejudice, who had no respect for the authority or venerability of beliefs (or believers) and examined all for their evidence, grounds, and supporting arguments. |
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/skept.htm
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| | philosophical skepticism |
| | The ordinary skeptic may be an atheist simply because he or she perceives little, if any, evidence for the belief in God. | | | Some theological skeptics, however, will defend atheism on the grounds that there is much more support for the probability that God does not exist than for the probability that God exists. | | | It is for this reason that some Skeptics assert that revelation from God is necessary. |
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http://www.skepdic.com/skepticism.html
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| | Contemporary Skepticism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Where skepticism does not have this epistemological focus, then it tends to be of an ontological form in that it is directed at beliefs about the existence of some supposedly problematic entity, such as the self or God. | | | It does not follow from the truth of skepticism that we lack the everyday knowledge that we attribute to ourselves, or even that such knowledge is inferior to the knowledge that the skeptic has in mind (which would, in line with the semantic contextualist view, presuppose a hierarchy). | | | The reason for this is that there will be no possible world within the realm of safety in which this proposition is false, and thus, in every world in the realm of safety in which she believes this proposition (which, I take it, is all of them), her belief is true. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/skepcont.htm
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| | Ancient Greek Skepticism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | But note that the skeptic will neither believe that the gods exist nor that they do not exist-he is neither a theist nor an atheist, but agnostic in a very robust sense. | | | We know practically nothing about Aenesidemus except that he lived sometime in the 1st Century B.C.E., and that he dedicated one of his written works to a Lucius Tubero, a friend of Cicero's who was also a member of the Academy. | | | We need not actually believe that the gods exist and that they are benevolent to take part in religious ceremonies or even to act in a manner that is (or at least appears) pious. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/skepanci.htm
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| | Skepticism |
| | These movies illustrate one other fundamental feature of the philosophical arguments for skepticism, namely, that the debate between the skeptics and their opponents takes place within the evidentialist account of knowledge which holds that knowledge is at least true, sufficiently justified belief. | | | Thus, it is that form of skepticism to which we will now turn and it is that form that will be the primary focus of this essay, although I will discuss some aspects of Pyrrhonism later. | | | There are arguments for Academic Skepticism which have some plausibility, and some plausible objections to those arguments that support the Epistemist's view. |
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| | Skeptic's Dictionary: reader comments philosophical skepticism |
| | It seems to me that this, while probably a position which is extremely and justifiably common among 20th century philosophers and scientists, is not a skeptical one, since it is actually called into question by some of the most important skeptical arguments. | | | Metaphysical possibilities, such as that we are all dreaming or that we are all atoms in a universal being or that we are all being constantly deceived about fundamental matters of perception and mathematics by an Evil Demon are not denied by skeptics. | | | You are, of course, free to use words any way you see fit, but I wonder about the utility of defining 'skeptic' in a way that would include Richard Nixon and George Patton and Joan of Arc. |
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| | Rationalism versus skepticism (from philosophical anthropology) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The philosophical branch of Daoism speaks of a permanent Dao in the way that some Western religions speak of God. | | | Because of the diverse subject matter it encompasses, anthropology has become, especially since the middle of the 20th century, a collection... | | | Holding that reality itself has an inherently logical structure, the Rationalist asserts that a class of truths exists that the intellect can grasp directly. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-15055
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| | Vanderbilt Philosophy Department/ Jeffrey Tlumak Faculty Interview Page |
| | And as I mentioned, Hume, for example, is someone who is an increasingly powerful philosophical figure to me, and I am a little stymied about some of these issues I am considering from Hume. | | | As regards self-control, the strong hunch that I am now working with is that the deepest essential and sufficient source of global skepticism is concern about the possibility of self-control. | | | Some skeptical arguments no doubt appeal to what I am calling a principle of epistemic universalizability. |
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http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/faculty/tlumak_interview.html
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| | Skepticism |
| | Students remain unconvinced by the skeptical arguments of Meditation I, but realize that refuting them is more difficult than they first thought. | | | Rorty's challenge to the entire epistemological enterprise can be seen as a way of eliminating the problem along with the attempt to find an indubitable basis for knowledge. | | | Not incidentally, a critical approach to these pieces also encourages reflective self-criticism. |
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| | Hume: Epistemology |
| | Hume held that these unjustifiable beliefs can be explained by reference to custom or habit. | | | The primitive human belief, Hume noted, is that we actually see (and hear, etc.) the physical objects themselves. | | | So we have no rational basis for believing that the sun will rise tomorrow. |
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http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/4t.htm
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| | Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Translation: Doubt & Atheism |
| | But it is possible that such moral skepticism too could be transformed into a religion. | | | Because of its positive and negative functions, doubt plays an important role in the motivation of atheism as it does in religion. | | | That dogmatist can establish a religious position, even simulating a "god" who possesses and judges the truth. |
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http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/dubo1.html
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| | The Significance of Philosophical Skepticism |
| | If we reject P1 of the skeptic’s argument, then we will have learned something significant about the nature of sense perception—one of our deeply intuitive beliefs about the nature of sense perception is mistaken. | | | Features of sense perception essentially add up to the claim that perceptual beliefs are not certain. | | | Pointing out that we in fact do have knowledge of the external world on the basis of sense perception does not provide an adequate philosophical understanding. |
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http://www.siue.edu/~wlarkin/teaching/PHIL310/skepticism.html
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| | Skepticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Skepticism and the Veil of Perception, book about philosophical skepticism and perceptual knowledge. | | | A skeptic does not claim that truth is impossible (which would be a truth claim). | | | Most people who are sceptical of claims of the paranormal and supernatural are not adherents of classical philosophical Scepticism. |
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| | Philosophical vs. Scientific Skepticism - Pop Occulture |
| | The goal of Pyrrho and his followers was a state of mind called “ataraxia”, or the peace of mind brought about by complete suspension of judgement. | | | But I prefer the philosophical kind to the scientific kind. | | | As opposed to scientific skepticism, in the philosophical variety “one critically examines whether the knowledge and perceptions one has are true, and whether or not one can ever be said to have true knowledge.” It’s also sometimes called methodological skepticism or Pyrrhonian skepticism. |
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http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/07/17/philosophical-vs-scientific-skepticism
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| | skepticism from FOLDOC |
| | terminolgy> belief that some or all human knowledge is impossible. | | | Since even our best methods for learning about the world sometimes fall short of perfect certainty, skeptics argue, it is better to suspend belief than to rely on the dubitable products of reason. | | | Fallibilism is a more moderate response to the lack of certainty. |
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http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?skepticism
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| | skepticism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The skeptical aspect of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy is exemplified by his agnosticism; his antinomies of reason demonstrate that certain problems are insoluble by reason. | | | The first important skeptical view was held by Democritus, who saw sense perception as no certain guide to objective reality. | | | Protagoras taught the relativity of knowledge, and Gorgias held that either nothing could be known, or if anything were known, it could not be communicated. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/sk/skeptici.html
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| | There are philosophers who are at least as well qualified as I am to pronounce on thesis X and who reject it. | | | Philosophical Skepticism: "Note that philosophical skepticism is not a thesis--if it were, it's hard to see how it could be accepted without pragmatic contradiction--but a state: philosophical skeptics are people who can't see their way clear to [accepting any philosophical thesis of any consequence]" (Van Inwagen, p. | | | This answer suggestion contains a counterexample to arguments like this: |
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| | PHL 202: Notes for Shafer-Landau, part I and II |
| | A. global nihilism: there are no truths, so global nihilism can't be true | | | Skepticism sets morality on arbitrary foundations (i.e., foundations unsupported by sufficiently good reasons) | | | B. global skepticism: If global skepticism is true, then if I believe global skepticism is false, then it is true that global skepticism is false. |
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http://www.uah.edu/colleges/liberal/philosophy/heikes/202/ShaferLandau-part2.html
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 90036477 |
| | Conrad's epistemological and moral skepticism - expressed, forestalled, mitigated, and suppressed - provides the terms for the author's rethinking of the peculiar relation between philosophy and literary form in Conrad's writing and, more broadly, for reconsidering what it means to call any novel 'philosophical'. | | | Conrad's interest as a skeptic is heightened by the degree to which he resists the insights proffered by his own skepticism. | | | A philosophical approach to Conrad, however, reveals links to other novelists - notably Hardy, Forster, and Woolf - all of whom share in the increasing philosophical burden of the modern novel by enacting the very philosophical issues that are discussed within their pages. |
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