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  1. Philosophical Skepticism.Ancient Western Skepticism & Practical Wisdom - 2002 - Hume Studies 28 (2).
  2. Frank Hindriks.Anti-Hegelian Skepticism - 2003 - In Matti Sintonen, Petri Ylikoski & Kaarlo Miller (eds.), Realism in Action: Essays in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 321--213.
     
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  3. Bad Dreams, Evil Demons, and the Experience Machine: Philosophy and The Matrix.I. Dream Skepticism - 1993 - In John Perry, Michael Bratman & John Martin Fischer (eds.), Introduction to philosophy: classical and contemporary readings. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 195.
     
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    The pretense of skepticism and its nonepistemological relevance in early modern philosophy.Anik Waldow - 2010 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 27 (1):35-55.
    Early modern philosophers after Ren? Descartes are commonly distinguished as either rationalists or empiricists: rationalists are understood to agree with Descartes that reason is the source of knowledge, while empiricists are seen to emphasize the role of the senses within processes of knowledge acquisition. In recent years, this classic distinction has increasingly come under scrutiny. It is objected that, in its simplicity, the distinction tends to conceal the various cross-categorial influences thinkers of the early modern era had on each other.1 (...)
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  5. A Priori Skepticism.James Beebe - 2011 - Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 83 (3):583-602.
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  6. From General Skepticism to Complete Dogmatism: Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville.Sébastien Charles - 2015 - In John Christian Laursen & Gianni Paganini (eds.), Skepticism and political thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
     
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    Socrates Meets Hume: The Father of Philosophy Meets the Father of Modern Skepticism.Peter Kreeft - 2012 - St. Augustine's Press.
    This book is the 6th book in a series of Socratic explorations of some of the Great Books. The books in this series are intended to be short, clear, and non-technical, thus fully understandable by beginners. Through such Socratic dialogues, Peter Kreeft introduces the basic questions in the fundamental divisions of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, anthropology, ethics, logic, and method. In Socrates Meets Hume, Kreeft presents a Socratic examination of enquiry concerning human understanding in relation to the skepticism of Hume, (...)
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    The anti-skepticism of John Buridan and Thomas Aquinas: Putting skeptics in their place versus stopping them in their tracks.Gyula Klima - 2010 - In Henrik Lagerlund (ed.), Rethinking the history of skepticism: the missing medieval background. Boston: Brill. pp. 103--145.
  9. Externalist responses to skepticism.Michael Bergmann - 2008 - In John Greco (ed.), The Oxford handbook of skepticism. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 504-32.
    In this paper I will be setting aside contextualists and closure-deniers and focusing solely on neo-Moorean versions of externalist responses to skepticism. I will be focusing on two prominent theses about externalist responses to skepticism, one positive and one negative. The positive thesis announces an alleged virtue of externalism: that externalism alone avoids skepticism. The negative thesis identifies an alleged defect of externalism: that externalism implausibly avoids skepticism. I will be critical of both theses, though I (...)
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    Ciceronian Academic Skepticism, Augustinian Anti-Skepticism, and the Argument from Second Place.Scott F. Aikin - 2017 - Ancient Philosophy 37 (2):387-405.
  11. Knowledge, default, and skepticism.Ernest Sosa - 2020 - In Peter Graham & Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen (eds.), Epistemic Entitlement. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
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  12. Lorenzo Valla: academic skepticism and the new humanist dialectic.Lisa Jardine - 1983 - In Myles Burnyeat (ed.), The Skeptical Tradition. University of California Press. pp. 253--286.
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    Against Piecemeal Skepticism.Eric Yang - 2015 - International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 5 (3):253-256.
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    Skepticism as a way of living: Sextus empiricus and zhuangzi.John Trowbridge - 2006 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 33 (2):249–265.
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    The Politics of Skepticism: Reading Montaigne.David R. Hiley - 1992 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 9 (4):379 - 399.
  16. Science and Skepticism in the Seventeenth Century: The Atomism and Scientific Method of Pierre Gassendi.Saul Fisher - 1997 - Dissertation, City University of New York
    In this account of the philosophical and scientific pursuits of Pierre Gassendi , I challenge a traditional view which says that the inspiration, motivation, and demonstrative grounds for his physical atomism consist not in his empiricism but in his historicist commitments. Indeed, Gassendi suggests that it's a consequence of our best theory of knowledge and sound scientific method that we get evidence which warrants his microphysical theory. ;The primary novelty of his theory of empirical knowledge is his proposal, against the (...)
     
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    MN Forster, Kant and Skepticism.Ludovicus De Vos - 2009 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 71 (3):608-609.
  18. Sympathy and Skepticism: The Imagination of Other Minds From the Enlightenment to Romanticism.Nancy Yousef - 1995 - Dissertation, Columbia University
    This thesis explores how the problem of other minds arises in philosophy and literature of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The effort to imagine and establish the conditions, limits and possibilities of human knowledge of other human beings is common to works of empirical psychology, moral philosophy, political theory, autobiography and fiction. The ways in which literature, and specifically autobiographical writing, imagine the solitude and singularity of the human being are understood, in this dissertation, as contextualizations of the skeptical (...)
     
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    Evolutionary skepticism.Thomas McHugh Reed - 1997 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 42 (2):79-96.
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    Skeptical Theism, Atheism, and Total Evidence Skepticism.Michael Bergmann - 2014 - In Trent Dougherty & Justin P. McBrayer (eds.), Skeptical Theism: New Essays. Oxford University Press. pp. 209-20.
    This paper is a response to John Schellenberg’s paper, “Skeptical Theism and Skeptical Atheism,” in which he raises objections to theistic belief that are supposed to cause special trouble for skeptical theists. In section I, I provide some clarificatory comments concerning skeptical theism. In section II, I evaluate an atheistic argument that Schellenberg finds particularly impressive. In section III, I examine the view Schellenberg calls ‘total evidence skepticism’ and consider its bearing on theistic belief. In the final section I (...)
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  21. On the Alleged Instability of Externalist Anti-skepticism.Matthew Jope - 2021 - Journal of Philosophy 118 (1):43-50.
    A certain brand of skeptical argument appeals to the thought that our inability to subjectively discriminate between competing hypotheses means that we are unwarranted in believing in either. Externalists respond by pointing out that such arguments depend on an internalist conception of warrant that we would do well to reject. This strategy has been criticised by Crispin Wright who argues that if we pursue the implications of externalism sufficiently far we find that it is ultimately unstable or incoherent. I first (...)
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  22. Feferman’s Skepticism About Set Theory.Charles Parsons - 2017 - In Gerhard Jäger & Wilfried Sieg (eds.), Feferman on Foundations: Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy. Cham: Springer.
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    Reply to Ari Armstrong's "A Direct Realist's Challenge to Skepticism" (Spring 2004): How to Be a Perceptual Realist.Michael Huemer - 2005 - Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 7 (1):229 - 237.
    In response to Ari Armstrong's essay, "A Direct Realist's Challenge to Skepticism," Huemer defends his views on two issues concerning the nature of perception, against the Objectivist position: First, he argues that perceptual experiences have propositional but nonconceptual content; second, he argues that in perceptual illusions, the senses misrepresent their objects. He finds that the Objectivist view that perception cannot misrepresent because it lacks propositional content not only is absurd but opens the door to philosophical skepticism.
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  24. Responses to skepticism.V. I. Part - 2010 - In Sven Bernecker & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Epistemology. New York: Routledge.
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    Prosocial skeptics: Skepticism and generalized trust.India Maisonet, Alexander G. Capella & Matthew T. Loveland - 2017 - Critical Research on Religion 5 (3):251-265.
    We report on a study of the religious correlates of generalized trust. Our critical frame leads us to explore novel questions about how nonreligion may encourage social trust. We find that those who believe the bible to be a book of fables are more trusting than those with other beliefs about the text, and that nontheists report a greater willingness to trust. We discuss the implications of our findings for future research about religious belief and generalized trust.
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    The standard misinterpretation of skepticism.Joseph Agassi - 1971 - Philosophical Studies 22 (4):49 - 50.
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  27. Part three: Skepticism and politics. Absolutism and despotism in Samuel Sorbière : notes on skepticism and politics.Lorenzo Bianchi - 2009 - In Maia Neto, José Raimundo, Gianni Paganini & John Christian Laursen (eds.), Skepticism in the modern age: building on the work of Richard Popkin. Boston: Brill.
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  28. Periegesis and skepticism : La Peyrère, geographer.Frédéric Gabriel - 2009 - In Maia Neto, José Raimundo, Gianni Paganini & John Christian Laursen (eds.), Skepticism in the modern age: building on the work of Richard Popkin. Boston: Brill.
     
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  29. Part six: Hume. Skepticism and religious belief in A treatise of human nature.Lívia Guimarães - 2009 - In Maia Neto, José Raimundo, Gianni Paganini & John Christian Laursen (eds.), Skepticism in the modern age: building on the work of Richard Popkin. Boston: Brill.
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    The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism.Ewa Plonowska Ziarek - 1995 - State University of New York Press.
    'This book makes a significant and needed contribution to post-structural philosophy and literary theory.
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  31. Ancient greek skepticism.Harold Thorsrud - 2004 - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    On Knowing that One Knows: The Logic of Skepticism and Theory.Richard Bosley - 1993 - New York: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers.
    The intent of this work is to discover suitable terms for harmonizing the dispositions of both theorist and skeptic and for providing balance between them. Towards reaching balance, the work, in dialectic ways, advances a reconsideration of concepts basic to any epistemology: doubting and affirming, truth and existence, knowing and perceiving, and necessity and contingency. A new account of hypothetical and relative modalities furnishes the mechanism of balance. The work also provides a critical examination of recent defense and criticism of (...)
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  33. Inductive rules, background knowledge, and skepticism.Daniel Steel & S. Kedzie Hall - unknown
    This essay defends the view that inductive reasoning involves following inductive rules against objections that inductive rules are undesirable because they ignore background knowledge and unnecessary because Bayesianism is not an inductive rule. I propose that inductive rules be understood as sets of functions from data to hypotheses that are intended as solutions to inductive problems. According to this proposal, background knowledge is important in the application of inductive rules and Bayesianism qualifies as an inductive rule. Finally, I consider a (...)
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    Encouraging Professional Skepticism in the Industry Specialization Era.Jonathan H. Grenier - 2017 - Journal of Business Ethics 142 (2):241-256.
    This paper provides theory and experimental evidence that, under common audit conditions, industry specialization inhibits some aspects of auditors’ professional skepticism. As auditors amass industry experience, they develop extensive knowledge of non-misstatement explanations for unusual financial statement fluctuations. This knowledge coupled with confidence in their ability to analyze audit evidence inhibits their inclination to be skeptical when there are no overt indicators of elevated misstatement risk. Although these conditions are, by definition, the conditions where misstatements are least likely, they (...)
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  35. The Antinomy of Thought Maimonian Skepticism and the Relation Between Thoughts and Objects = de Antinomie van Het Denken : Salomon Maimons Skepticisme En de Relatie Tussen Gedachten En Objekten.Jan Bransen - 1990 - Onderwijs Media Instituut.
     
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    “Kant's Diagnosis of the Unity of Skepticism”.Matthew A. Kelsey - 2014 - Philosophers' Imprint 14.
    I explicate and defend Kant's analysis of “skepticism” as a single, metaphilosophically unified rational phenomenon (at A756–764/B784–797, for instance). Kant anticipates one of the defining trends of contemporary epistemology's approach to radical philosophical skepticism: the thought that skepticism cannot be directly refuted, by demonstrating its falsity, but must be diagnosed, to show that its premises are unnatural, and consequently fail to be rationally compelling from within our own nonskeptical standpoint. Kant's most ambitious claim here is that he (...)
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    A puzzle about the significance of skepticism.William Larkin - manuscript
    II. Introduction A. The following claims are individually plausible: 1. Skepticism is philosophically significant. 2. Skepticism is philosophically significant only if there is some skeptical argument that is bound to reveal something about either the scope or..
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    Review of the book: Pritchard, D. (2016). Epistemic Angst. Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press. [REVIEW]Vicente Raga Rosaleny - 2019 - Estudios de Filosofía (Universidad de Antioquia) 60.
    Review of the book: Pritchard, D.. Epistemic Angst. Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press.
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  39. Externalism, skepticism, and the problem of easy knowledge.José L. Zalabardo - 2005 - Philosophical Review 114 (1):33-61.
    The paper deals with a version of the principle that a belief source can be a knowledge source only if the subject knows that it is reliable. I argue that the principle can be saved from the main objections that motivate its widespread rejection: the claim that it leads to skepticism, the claim that it forces us to accept counterintuitive knowledge ascriptions and the claim that it is incompatible with reliabilist accounts of knowledge. I argue that naturalist epistemologists should (...)
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    Skepticism and Information.Eric T. Kerr & Duncan Pritchard - 2012 - In Hilmi Demir (ed.), Philosophy of Engineering and Technology Volume 8. Springer.
    Philosophers of information, according to Luciano Floridi (The philosophy of information. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010, p 32), study how information should be “adequately created, processed, managed, and used.” A small number of epistemologists have employed the concept of information as a cornerstone of their theoretical framework. How this concept can be used to make sense of seemingly intractable epistemological problems, however, has not been widely explored. This paper examines Fred Dretske’s information-based epistemology, in particular his response to radical epistemological (...)
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    Skepticism in Classical Islam: Moments of Confusion.Paul L. Heck - 2013 - New York: Routledge.
    The first major treatment of skepticism in Islam, this book explores the critical role of skeptical thinking in the development of theology in Islam. It examines the way key thinkers in classical Islam faced perplexing questions about the nature of God and his relation to the world, all the while walking a fine line between belief in God's message as revealed in the Qur'an, and the power of the mind to discover truths on its own. Skepticism in Classical (...)
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  42. Pyrrhonian skepticism.Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.) - 2004 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Throughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of the central challenges of epistemology. Opponents of skepticism--including externalists, contextualists, foundationalists, and coherentists--have focussed largely on one particular variety of skepticism, often called Cartesian or Academic skepticism, which makes the radical claim that nobody can know anything. However, this version of skepticism is something of a straw man, since virtually no philosopher endorses this radical skeptical claim. The only skeptical view that has been truly held--by (...)
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    Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present.Diego E. Machuca & Baron Reed (eds.) - 2018 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism. Divided chronologically into ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods, and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters from leading philosophers, this comprehensive volume is the first of its kind.
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  44. Skepticism About Moral Responsibility.Gregg D. Caruso - 2018 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2018):1-81.
    Skepticism about moral responsibility, or what is more commonly referred to as moral responsibility skepticism, refers to a family of views that all take seriously the possibility that human beings are never morally responsible for their actions in a particular but pervasive sense. This sense is typically set apart by the notion of basic desert and is defined in terms of the control in action needed for an agent to be truly deserving of blame and praise. Some moral (...)
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  45. Skepticism: Impractical, Therefore Implausible.Michael Hannon - 2019 - Philosophical Issues 29 (1):143-158.
    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. But do these negative consequences have any bearing on the truth of skepticism? According to many scholars, they do not. The impractical consequences of skepticism are typically regarded as orthogonal to its truth. For this reason, pragmatic resolutions to skepticism are regularly dismissed. I (...)
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  46. Skepticism, Information, and Closure: Dretske’s Theory of Knowledge.Christoph Jäger - 2004 - Erkenntnis 61 (2-3):187 - 201.
    According to Fred Dretske's externalist theory of knowledge a subject knows that p if and only if she believes that p and this belief is caused or causally sustained by the information that p. Another famous feature of Dretske's epistemology is his denial that knowledge is closed under known entailment. I argue that, given Dretske's construal of information, he is in fact committed to the view that both information and knowledge are closed under known entailment. Hence, if it is true (...)
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  47. Skepticism and elegance: problems for the abductivist reply to Cartesian skepticism.Matthew B. Gifford - 2013 - Philosophical Studies 164 (3):685-704.
    Some philosophers argue that we are justified in rejecting skepticism because it is explanatorily inferior to more commonsense hypotheses about the world. Focusing on the work of Jonathan Vogel, I show that this “abductivist” or “inference to the best explanation” response rests on an impoverished explanatory framework which ignores the explanatory gap between an object's having certain properties and its appearing to have those properties. Once this gap is appreciated, I argue, the abductivist strategy is defeated.
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    Skepticism in the Modern Age: Building on the Work of Richard Popkin.José Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini & John Christian Laursen (eds.) - 2009 - Boston: Brill.
    This book reassesses the role and impact of skepticism in early modern philosophy, revisiting and reinterpreting the positions of some of the main early modern philosophers in relation to this tradition and showing its relevance to others who have not previously been connected to skepticism.
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    Skepticism films: knowing and doubting the world in contemporary cinema.Philipp Schmerheim - 2015 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    A study of how contemporary cinema and film-philosophers explore radical skepticism about our knowledge of the world.
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    Absolute skepticism, Eastern and Western.Bhaswati Bhattacharya - 1987 - Calcutta: Prajñā.
    On skepticism in the context of knowledge.
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