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  1. the Scientific Revolution in the 17th Century.Theology Scepticism - 1968 - In Imre Lakatos & Alan Musgrave, Problems in the philosophy of science. Amsterdam,: North-Holland Pub. Co.. pp. 1--39.
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  2. Suresh Chandra.Identity Scepticism & Interrupted Existence - 1991 - In Ramakant A. Sinari, Concept of man in philosophy. Delhi: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla in association with B.R.. pp. 36.
  3. the Sceptical Tradition.Ancient Scepticism - forthcoming - Acta Philosophica Fennica.
     
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    Competing far the good life, Steven Luper-Foy.Demon Scepticism - 1986 - American Philosophical Quarterly 23 (2).
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    Jan Woleriski.on Ajdukiewicz'S. Refutation Of Scepticism - 1995 - In Vito Sinisi & Jan Woleński, The heritage of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz. Rodopi. pp. 353.
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  6. Edward Halper.Relevent Alternatives, Demon Scepticism & Bredo C. Johnsen - 1988 - Journal of Philosophy 85 (1).
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  7. Bjc Madison.Priori Arguments Against Scepticism Peacocke’Sa - 2011 - Grazer Philosophische Studien, Vol. 83-2011 83:1-8.
     
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  8. Wittgenstein on scepticism and certainty.A. Grayling - 2001 - In Hans-Johann Glock, Wittgenstein: a critical reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell. pp. 305--321.
     
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    Knowledge and Scepticism Douglas Odegard Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1982. Pp. 170. $35.60.William R. Abbott - 1984 - Dialogue 23 (4):725-729.
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  10. Kant on Platonic Scepticism.C. Adair-Toteff - 1998 - Skepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 9.
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    “The end of ubuntu”: An extension of Matolino’s scepticism.Tosin Adeate - 2022 - South African Journal of Philosophy 41 (4):325-336.
    In a joint article1 with Wenceslaus Kwindingwi, Bernard Matolino declared an end to ubuntu. The declaration, they argue, is a result of the failure of ubuntu in practice and theory in modern African societies. This declaration triggered strong reactions, and an analysis of these responses suggests the need for continuous interrogations of African ideals and beliefs and their relevance to modern African thought. In this article, I argue that Kwindingwi and Matolino’s argument is in line with Matolino’s broader scepticism (...)
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  12. Perceptual relativism, scepticism, and Thomas Reid.René Van Woudenberg - 2000 - Reid Studies 3 (2):65-85.
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    11. Nihilism, Scepticism, and Decisionism.Daniel Goldstick - 2009 - In Reason, Truth and Reality. University of Toronto Press. pp. 113-118.
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    Uncertain Knowledge. Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages.Andrei Marinca - 2015 - Chôra 13:308-309.
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    The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations.Nicholas P. White - 1988 - Philosophical Review 97 (2):256.
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    Discussion Note: McCain on Weak Predictivism and External World Scepticism.David William Harker - 2013 - Philosophia 41 (1):195-202.
    In a recent paper McCain (2012) argues that weak predictivism creates an important challenge for external world scepticism. McCain regards weak predictivism as uncontroversial and assumes the thesis within his argument. There is a sense in which the predictivist literature supports his conviction that weak predictivism is uncontroversial. This absence of controversy, however, is a product of significant plasticity within the thesis, which renders McCain’s argument worryingly vague. For McCain’s argument to work he either needs a stronger version of (...)
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    Transgressing the boundaries of science: Glazer, scepticism, and Emily's experiment.Thomas Cox - 2004 - Nursing Philosophy 5 (1):75-78.
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    Steiner on Cartesian Scepticism.David Gordon - 1979 - Analysis 39 (4):224 -.
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  19. HOFSTADTER, A. -Locke and Scepticism[REVIEW]R. I. Aaron - 1936 - Mind 45:258.
     
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  20. R. H. Popkin, The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes. [REVIEW]Giorgio Tonelli - 1964 - Filosofia 15 (2):327.
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    Achtenberg, Deborah. Cognition of Value in AristotleLs Ethics: Promise of Enrichment, Threat of Destruction. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. Pp. xii+ 218. Paper, $20.95. Alexiou, Margaret. After Antiquity: Greek Language, Myth, and Metaphor. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii+ 567. Cloth, $59.95. Bailey, Alan. Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonean Scepticism. New York: Oxford University Press, Clarendon. [REVIEW]Early Nineteenth Century - 2003 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (1).
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    Thomas Reid and Scepticism: His reliabilist response. [REVIEW]Gordon Graham - 2002 - Philosophy 77 (3):454-471.
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    Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonean Scepticism[REVIEW]Filip Grgić - 2004 - Croatian Journal of Philosophy 4 (3):403-408.
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    Ancient Scepticism.Harald Thorsrud - 2009 - University of California Press.
    Scepticism, a philosophical tradition that casts doubt on our ability to gain knowledge of the world and suggests suspending judgment in the face of uncertainty, has been influential since its beginnings in ancient Greece. Harald Thorsrud provides an engaging, rigorous introduction to the central themes, arguments, and general concerns of ancient Scepticism, from its beginnings with Pyrrho of Elis to the writings of Sextus Empiricus in the second century A.D. Thorsrud explores the differences among Sceptics and examines in (...)
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  25. Scepticism and Certainty in Salomon Maimon’s Theory of Invention.Idit Chikurel - 2024 - In Michela Torbidoni, Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 3, 2024. BRILL. pp. 258-286.
    This article examines the sceptical dimension of Salomon Maimon’s theory of invention. It suggests the following: (i) Most of Maimon’s methods are intended to increase the degree of certainty that we can attribute to propositions, but not to achieve apodictic certainty. (ii) Maimon’s various forms of scepticism, for example, doubt and the antinomies, should be considered as belonging to a scale of doubt wherein degrees of certainty and probability can increase and decrease. (iii) His methods of invention offer various (...)
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    Scepticism and Reliable Belief.José L. Zalabardo - 2012 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Reliabilist accounts of knowledge are widely seen as having the resources for blocking sceptical arguments, since these arguments appear to rely on assumptions about the nature of knowledge that are rendered illegitimate by reliabilist accounts. The goal of this book is to assess the main arguments against the possibility of knowledge, and its conclusions challenge this consensus. The book articulates and defends a theory of knowledge that belongs firmly in the truth-tracking tradition, and argues that although the theory has the (...)
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    Scepticism: Epistemic and Ontological.Anthony Rudd - 2000 - Metaphilosophy 31 (3):251-261.
    It is widely thought that sceptical arguments, if correct, would show that everyday empirical knowledge‐claims are false. Against this, I argue that the very generality of traditional sceptical arguments means that there is no direct incompatibility between everyday empirical claims and sceptical scenarios. Scepticism calls into doubt, not ordinary empirical beliefs, but philosophical attempts to give a deep ontological explanation of such beliefs. G. E. Moore's attempt to refute scepticism (and idealism) was unsuccessful, because it failed to recognise (...)
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  28. Scepticism, Infallibilism, Fallibilism.Tim Kraft - 2012 - Discipline Filosofiche 22 (2):49-70.
    The relation of scepticism to infallibilism and fallibilism is a contested issue. In this paper I argue that Cartesian sceptical arguments, i.e. sceptical arguments resting on sceptical scenarios, are neither tied to infallibilism nor collapse into fallibilism. I interpret the distinction between scepticism and fallibilism as a scope distinction. According to fallibilism, each belief could be false, but according to scepticism all beliefs could be false at the same time. However, to put this distinction to work sceptical (...)
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  29. Scepticism and Perceptual Justification.Dylan Dodd & Elia Zardini (eds.) - 2013 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    How can experience provide knowledge, or even justified belief, about the objective world outside our minds? This volume presents original essays by prominent contemporary epistemologists, who show how philosophical progress on foundational issues can improve our understanding of, and suggest a solution to, this famous sceptical question.
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    Scepticism, closure and rationally grounded knowledge: a new solution.Ju Wang - 2020 - Synthese 197 (6):2357-2374.
    Radical scepticism contends that our knowledge of the external world is impossible. Particularly, radical scepticism can be motivated by the closure principle. Several commentators have noted that a straightforward way to respond to such arguments is via externalist strategies, e.g., Goldman, Greco, Bergmann. However, these externalist strategies are not effective against a slightly weaker form of the argument, a closure principle for rationally grounded knowledge, closureRK.\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${closure}_{RK.}$$\end{document} The sceptical argument, framed (...)
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    Scepticism without Knowledge-Attributions.Aaran Burns - 2020 - Logos and Episteme 11 (2):133-148.
    The sceptic says things like “nobody knows anything at all,” “nobody knows that they have hands,” and “nobody knows that the table exists when they aren't looking at it.” According to many recent anti-sceptics, the sceptic means to deny ordinary knowledge attributions. Understood this way, the sceptic is open to the charge, made often by Contextualists and Externalists, that he doesn't understand the way that the word “knowledge” is ordinarily used. In this paper, I distinguish a form of Scepticism (...)
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  32. Philosophical Scepticism and Ordinary Beliefs.Gloria H. Eres - 1984 - Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley
    In ordinary life we think that we know many things about the world. I know that I am sitting here. I know that it is not raining. I know that Reagan is President--and many more interesting things. We also think that we know things of a more general sort, e.g., that there are tables, chairs, physical objects, other people. Most of the time, we believe that we have good reasons for our beliefs. Descartes, Hume and Russell, however, as a result (...)
     
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  33. On Scepticism About Ought Simpliciter.James L. D. Brown - 2024 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 102 (2):497-511.
    Scepticism about ought simpliciter is the view that there is no such thing as what one ought simpliciter to do. Instead, practical deliberation is governed by a plurality of normative standpoints, each authoritative from their own perspective but none authoritative simpliciter. This paper aims to resist such scepticism. After setting out the challenge in general terms, I argue that scepticism can be resisted by rejecting a key assumption in the sceptic’s argument. This is the assumption that standpoint-relative (...)
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    Scepticism about Meaning in the German Enlightenment.Vladimir Lazurca - 2025 - International Journal for the Study of Skepticism:1-31.
    Exegetical scepticism is a strand of scepticism about meaning running through the German Enlightenment. This paper provides the first modern account of its tenets, critics, and proponents, and argues that it shares essential features with modern varieties of meaning-scepticism that have been a preoccupation among philosophers of language since the middle of the twentieth century. I argue that exegetical scepticism is a type of epistemological scepticism first introduced as a philosophical position in a theological debate (...)
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  35. Moral Scepticism: Why Ask "Why Should I Be Moral"?Richard Arnot Home Bett - 1986 - Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley
    Many of us have a prereflective sense--or at least, a hope--that there are reasons to be moral which apply to an agent regardless of what his or her existing motivations may be. The view that there are no such reasons may, then, be regarded as a form of moral scepticism. The philosophical position which seems most fit to refute this form of moral scepticism, and hence to support our prereflective sense, is a Kantian view of morality, according to (...)
     
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    Meaning-scepticism and analyticity.Patrice Philie - 2005 - Dialectica 59 (3):357–365.
    In his paper "Analyticity", Boghossian defends the notion of analyticity against Quine's forceful criticism. Boghossian's main contention is that nonfactualism about analyticity of the kind advocated by Quine entails scepticism about meaning -- and this shows that Quine's argument can't be right. In other words, Boghossian presents us with a _reductio of Quine's thesis. In this paper, I present an argument to the effect that Boghossian's attempted _reductio fails. In the course of making this case, I will suggest that (...)
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  37. Scepticism and Implicit Bias.Jennifer Saul - 2013 - Disputatio 5 (37):243-263.
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    Meaning Scepticism.Alexander Miller - 2006 - In Michael Devitt & Richard Hanley, The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 91–113.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Quine on Indeterminacy of Translation: The Argument from Below Quine on Indeterminacy of Translation: The Argument from Above Kripke's Wittgenstein's Attack on Meaning Conclusion.
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    Scepticism.Peter Poellner - 1995 - In Nietzsche and metaphysics. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Presents Nietzsche's critical reflections directed at traditional metaphysical categories such as the external world, substance, causation, and self. Targeted theories include the doctrine of substance qua substratum for properties; the Lockean ontology of powers inherent in external objects; the construal of the self as either mental substance or transcendental subjects; atomism; and the belief in the explanatory powers of Newtonian force. It is argued that there is a pervasive general line of scepticism in Nietzsche's later thought concerning the possibility (...)
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  40. Beyond scepticism, to the best of our knowledge.Ernest Sosa - 1988 - Mind 97 (386):153-188.
    Epistemology is too far-flung and diverse for a survey in a single essay. I have settled for a snapshot which, though perforce superficial and partial, might yet provide an overview. My perspective is determined by the books and articles prominent in the recent literature and in my own recent courses and seminars. Seeing that the boundaries of our field have shifted through the ages and are even now very ill-marked, I have chosen two central issues, each under vigorous and many-sided (...)
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    Scepticism and dogmatism.Jørgen Døør - 1973 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 16 (1-4):214 – 220.
    In 'A Note on “Scepticism and Absurdity”; ' (Inquiry, Vol. 10 [1967], No. 3), Zinkernagel has restated his attack on scepticism, maintaining that his approach, where we need only refer to a simple and inspectable fact of language, offers a decisive argument against scepticism. It is suggested that Zinkernagel's optimism is unwarranted because on close inspection his general theory reveals some serious complexities, and it is shown that in his own terms Zinkernagel's second rule is not a (...)
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    Healthy Scepticism?Oswald Hanfling - 1993 - Philosophy 68 (263):91 - 93.
    In his article ‘Healthy Scepticism’, James Franklin gives an admirable survey of thirteen kinds of attempts to refute what he calls ‘symmetry arguments for scepticism’, finding all of them inadequate. The symmetry argument that he proposes to test is given as follows: Firstly, it is possible that what we perceive is entirely an illusion created by a deceitful demon. Second, there is no reason to prefer the realist hypothesis to this one.
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  43. Scepticism and ordinary epistemic practice.Stephen Hetherington - 2006 - Philosophia 34 (3):303-310.
    It is not unusual for epistemologists to argue that ordinary epistemic practice is a setting within which (infallibilist) scepticism will not arise. Such scepticism is deemed to be an alien invader, impugning such epistemic practice entirely from without. But this paper argues that the suggested sort of analysis overstates the extent to which ordinary epistemic practice is antipathetic to some vital aspects of such sceptical thinking. The paper describes how a gradualist analysis of knowledge can do more justice (...)
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    Moore and Wittgenstein: scepticism, certainty, and common sense.Annalisa Coliva - 2010 - New York, NY: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Does scepticism threaten our common sense picture of the world? Does it really undermine our deep-rooted certainties? Answers to these questions are offered through a comparative study of the epistemological work of two key figures in the history of analytic philosophy, G. E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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  45. The scepticism of francisco Sanchez.Damian Caluori - 2007 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 89 (1):30-46.
    The Renaissance sceptic and medical doctor Francisco Sanchez has been rather unduly neglected in scholarly work on Renaissance scepticism. In this paper I discuss his scepticism against the background of the ancient distinction between Academic and Pyrrhonian scepticism. I argue that Sanchez was a Pyrrhonist rather than, as has been claimed in recent years, a mitigated Academic sceptic. In keeping with this I shall also try to show that Sanchez was crucially influenced by the ancient medical school (...)
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    Scepticism, knowledge, and forms of reasoning.John Koethe - 2005 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
    Scepticism, Knowledge, and Forms of Reasoning is an attempt to resolve how best to respond to such vexing arguments, a matter on which there is no consensus ...
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  47. Scepticism, perceptual knowledge, and doxastic responsibility.Alan Millar - 2012 - Synthese 189 (2):353-372.
    Arguments for scepticism about perceptual knowledge are often said to have intuitively plausible premises. In this discussion I question this view in relation to an argument from ignorance and argue that the supposed persuasiveness of the argument depends on debatable background assumptions about knowledge or justification. A reasonable response to scepticism has to show there is a plausible epistemological perspective that can make sense of our having perceptual knowledge. I present such a perspective. In order give a more (...)
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  48. Scepticism about epistemic blame.Tim Smartt - 2023 - Philosophical Studies 180 (5):1813-1828.
    I advocate scepticism about epistemic blame; the view that we have good reason to think there is no distinctively epistemic form of blame. Epistemologists often find it useful to draw a distinction between blameless and blameworthy norm violation. In recent years, this has led several writers to develop theories of ‘epistemic blame.’ I present two challenges against the very idea of epistemic blame. First, everything that is supposedly done by epistemic blame is done by epistemic evaluation, at least according (...)
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  49. Scepticism.Christopher Hookway - 1990 - New York: Routledge.
    Scepticism is a subject which has preoccupied philosophers for two thousand years. This book presents an historical perspective on scepticism by considering contrasting views, such as those of Sextus Empiricus, Descartes and Hume, on why scepticism is important. With its historical perspective and analysis of contemporary discussions, _Scepticism_ provides a broad focus on the subject, differing from other discussions of the topic in the importance it attaches to scepticism both in Greek thought and in pre-twentieth century (...)
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    On Scepticism and Certainty.Anthony Kenny - 1989 - In Dayton Z. Phillips & Peter G. Winch, Wittgenstein. Blackwell. pp. 160–172.
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