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    Competing far the good life, Steven Luper-Foy.Demon Scepticism - 1986 - American Philosophical Quarterly 23 (2).
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  2. the Scientific Revolution in the 17th Century.Theology Scepticism - 1968 - In Imre Lakatos & Alan Musgrave (eds.), Problems in the philosophy of science. Amsterdam,: North-Holland Pub. Co.. pp. 1--39.
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  3. the Sceptical Tradition.Ancient Scepticism - forthcoming - Acta Philosophica Fennica.
     
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    Jan Woleriski.on Ajdukiewicz'S. Refutation Of Scepticism - 1995 - In Vito Sinisi & Jan Woleński (eds.), The heritage of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz. Rodopi. pp. 353.
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    Edward Halper.Relevent Alternatives, Demon Scepticism & Bredo C. Johnsen - 1988 - Journal of Philosophy 85 (1).
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  6. Suresh Chandra.Identity Scepticism & Interrupted Existence - 1991 - In Ramakant A. Sinari (ed.), Concept of man in philosophy. Delhi: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla in association with B.R.. pp. 36.
  7. Bjc Madison.Priori Arguments Against Scepticism Peacocke’Sa - 2011 - Grazer Philosophische Studien, Vol. 83-2011 83:1-8.
     
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  8. The history of scepticism: from Savonarola to Bayle.Richard H. Popkin - 2003 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Richard H. Popkin.
    This is the third edition of a classic book first published in 1960, which has sold thousands of copies in two paperback edition and has been translated into several foreign languages. Popkin's work ha generated innumerable citations, and remains a valuable stimulus to current historical research. In this updated version, he has revised and expanded throughout, and has added three new chapters, one on Savonarola, one on Henry More and Ralph Cudworth, and one on Pascal. This authoritative treatment of the (...)
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  9. Philosphical 'intuitions' and scepticism about judgement.Timothy Williamson - 2004 - Dialectica 58 (1):109–153.
    1. What are called ‘intuitions’ in philosophy are just applications of our ordinary capacities for judgement. We think of them as intuitions when a special kind of scepticism about those capacities is salient. 2. Like scepticism about perception, scepticism about judgement pressures us into conceiving our evidence as facts about our internal psychological states: here, facts about our conscious inclinations to make judgements about some topic rather than facts about the topic itself. But the pressure should be (...)
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  10. Evolution and Normative Scepticism.Karl Schafer - 2010 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88 (3):471-488.
    It is increasingly common to suggest that the combination of evolutionary theory and normative realism leads inevitably to a general scepticism about our ability to reliably form normative beliefs. In what follows, I argue that this is not the case. In particular, I consider several possible arguments from evolutionary theory and normative realism to normative scepticism and explain where they go wrong. I then offer a more general diagnosis of the tendency to accept such arguments and why this (...)
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  11. Wittgenstein's On Certainty and Contemporary Anti-Scepticism.Duncan Pritchard - 2005 - In D. Moyal-Sharrock & W. H. Brenner (eds.), Investigating On Certainty: Essays on Wittgenstein's Last Work. Palgrave-Macmillan.
    This paper examines the relevance of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty to the contemporary debate regarding the problem of radical scepticism. In particular, it considers two accounts in the recent literature which have seen in Wittgenstein’s remarks on “hinge propositions” in On Certainty the basis for a primarily epistemological anti-sceptical thesis—viz., the inferential contextualism offered by Michael Williams and the ‘unearned warrant’ thesis defended by Crispin Wright. Both positions are shown to be problematic, both as interpretations of Wittgenstein and as anti-sceptical (...)
     
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  12. McDowell and Wright on Anti-Scepticism etc.Alex Byrne - 2013 - In Dylan Dodd & Elia Zardini (eds.), Scepticism and Perceptual Justification. New York: Oxford University Press.
    On the assumption that we may learn from our elders and betters, this paper approaches some fundamental questions in perceptual epistemology through a dispute between McDowell and Wright about external world scepticism.
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    Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism.Peter Lamarque - 1976 - Philosophical Quarterly 26 (105):369-371.
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  14. (1 other version)The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations.[author unknown] - 1985 - Phronesis 30 (3):305-313.
     
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  15. Contrastivism, evidence, and scepticism.Duncan Pritchard - 2008 - Social Epistemology 22 (3):305 – 323.
    I offer a critical treatment of the contrastivist response to the problem of radical scepticism. In particular, I argue that if contrastivism is understood along externalist lines then it is unnecessary, while if it is understood along internalist lines then it is intellectually dissatisfying. Moreover, I claim that a closer examination of the conditions under which it is appropriate to claim knowledge reveals that we can accommodate many of the intuitions appealed to by contrastivists without having to opt for (...)
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    Feyerabend's scepticism.José Maia Neto - 1991 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 22 (4):543-555.
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    The Empirical Bases of Moral Scepticism.Francis Snare - 1984 - American Philosophical Quarterly 21 (3):215 - 225.
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  18. Incommensurability, relativism, scepticism: Reflections on acquiring a concept.Nathaniel Goldberg & Matthew Rellihan - 2008 - Ratio 21 (2):147–167.
    Some opponents of the incommensurability thesis, such as Davidson and Rorty, have argued that the very idea of incommensurability is incoherent and that the existence of alternative and incommensurable conceptual schemes is a conceptual impossibility. If true, this refutes Kuhnian relativism and Kantian scepticism in one fell swoop. For Kuhnian relativism depends on the possibility of alternative, humanly accessible conceptual schemes that are incommensurable with one another, and the Kantian notion of a realm of unknowable things-in-themselves gives rise to (...)
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    Lorenzo valla and quattrocento scepticism.Lodi Nauta - 2006 - Vivarium 44 (s 2-3):375-395.
    Lorenzo Valla has often been considered to be a sceptic. Equipped with an extremely polemical and critical mind, his whole oeuvre seemed to aim at undermining received philosophical and theological dogmas. More specifically he has been associated with the burgeoning interests in ancient scepticism in the fifteenth century. In this article the arguments in support of this interpretation will be critically examined and evaluated. Based on a discussion of two of his major works, De vero bono and the Dialectica, (...)
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  20. (1 other version)Barry Stroud, The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism Reviewed by.Bruce Hunter - 1985 - Philosophy in Review 5 (9):394-398.
     
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    Knowledge, certainty and scepticism: in Moore's defence.Hans Johann Glock - 2004 - In Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (ed.), The Third Wittgenstein: the post-Investigations works. Ashgate. pp. 63-78.
  22. (2 other versions)Against all reason? : scepticism about the instrumental norm.Stephen Finlay - 2009 - In Charles Pigden (ed.), Hume on motivation and virtue. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
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    Theology and Meaning: A Critique of Metatheological Scepticism.Raeburne Seeley Heimbeck - 1969 - Routledge.
    What sense, if any, does it make to speak of God? This question, of such vital importance to religious commitment, occupies an important place in discussion among Anglo-American philosophers of religion whose orientation is logical analysis. ‘Metatheological scepticism’ is the view that denies the intelligibility of religious discourse, derived from a theory of meaning which holds that a sentence has cognitive significance only if it makes a statement that is conclusively verifiable on empirical grounds. Dr Heimbeck’s argument for the (...)
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  24. More, and Deeper, Dogmas of Empiricism: Towards a Holism without Scepticism.L. Bouritsas - 1989 - Filosofia 19:410-423.
     
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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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    Self-knowledge, Externalism and Scepticism, II.David Owens - 2000 - Supplement to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 74 (1):119-142.
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    Verificationism, realism and scepticism.Samir Okasha - 2001 - Erkenntnis 55 (3):371-385.
    Verificationism has often seemed attractive to philosophers because of its apparent abilityto deliver us from scepticism. However, I argue that purely epistemological considerationsprovide insufficient reason for embracing verificationism over realism. I distinguish twotypes of sceptical problem: those that stem from underdetermination by the actual data,and those that stem from underdetermination by all possible data. Verificationismevades problems of the second sort, but is powerless in the face of problems of the firstsort. But problems of the first sort are equally pressing. (...)
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    Deductive Closure, Scepticism and The Paradoxes of Confirmation.Hamid Vahid - 1995 - Ratio 8 (1):70-86.
    To undermine much of what we ordinarily claim to know, sceptics have often appealed to a principle (known as the principle of closure) according to which knowledge (justification) is closed under known entailment. In this paper after expounding the views of Stein, Klein and others, I shall argue that they all fail to take note of different contexts in which the principle of closure is applied. The relevance of the principle of closure for scepticism is then analyzed in the (...)
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    How Is Scepticism Possible?Oswald Hanfling - 1987 - Philosophy 62 (242):435 - 453.
    Philosophy unties the knots in our thinking, which we have tangled up in an absurd way; but to do that, it must make movements which are just as complicated as the knots. 1 A claim to know can be contradicted in various ways. Which of them does the sceptic have in mind when he denies that we can know—for example, that the sun will rise tomorrow? Does he mean, perhaps, that the proposition is false—that the sun will not rise tomorrow? (...)
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    Relativism and Scepticism.Otávio Bueno - 2008 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16 (2):247-254.
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    Williamson on Scepticism and Rationality.David Owens - 2004 - Philosophical Books 45 (4):306-312.
    We are often in no position to know whether p is true but, it is widely held, where we do know that p, we are always in a position to know that we know that p: knowledge is luminous. In Chapter 4 of Knowledge and Its Limits Williamson argues that knowledge is not luminous and with this conclusion in hand he hopes to see off the sceptic, amongst other things.
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    Hume's Scepticism Regarding ‘Probable Reasoning’ in the Treatise.Owen Raynor - 1964 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 2 (3):103-106.
  33. Jean Gerson, moral certainty and the Renaissance of ancient Scepticism.Rudolf Schüssler - 2009 - Renaissance Studies 23 (4):445-462.
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    Facing the Challenges of Environmental Ethical Scepticism.Debashis Guha - 2008 - Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 23:29-35.
    With the rise of Practical and Professional Ethics has risen Environmental Ethics. Ethical reflections pertaining to environmental and ecological problems is not new; in the recent times we have been discussing these issues in a more methodical and organised way. Methodicity taking centre stage in moral philosophical scrutiny of matters pertaining to life and world finds sceptics throwing stiff challenges to the method of ‘activism’ involving common men for their moral perceptions and resolution of the said ethical issues. Sceptics also (...)
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  35. Dreaming and scepticism: A rejoinder.Norman Malcolm - 1957 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 35 (3):207-211.
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  36. Revisionism, Scepticism, and the Non-Belief Theory of Hinge Commitments.Chris Ranalli - 2018 - International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 8 (2):96-130.
    In his recent work, Duncan Pritchard defends a novel Wittgensteinian response to the problem of radical scepticism. The response makes essential use of a form of non-epistemicism about the nature of hinge commitments. According to non-epistemicism, hinge commitments cannot be known or grounded in rational considerations, such as reasons and evidence. On Pritchard’s version of non-epistemicism, hinge commitments express propositions but cannot be believed. This is the non-belief theory of hinge commitments. One of the main reasons in favour of (...)
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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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  38. Counterfactual scepticism and antecedent-contextualism.Alan Hájek - 2020 - Synthese 199 (1-2):637-659.
    I have argued for a kind of ‘counterfactual scepticism’: most counterfactuals ever uttered or thought in human history are false. I briefly rehearse my main arguments. Yet common sense recoils. Ordinary speakers judge most counterfactuals that they utter and think to be true. A common defence of such judgments regards counterfactuals as context-dependent: the proposition expressed by a given counterfactual can vary according to the context in which it is uttered. In normal contexts, the counterfactuals that we utter are (...)
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  39. Hume’s true scepticism[REVIEW]Hsueh Qu - 2017 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (4):839-841.
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    Representation and Scepticism from Aquinas to Descartes by Han Thomas Adriaenssen. [REVIEW]Walter Ott - 2018 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 56 (4):752-753.
    It is by now a truism that early modern debates are heavily indebted to their medieval antecedents. Just in what way, and to what degree, is controversial. Han Thomas Adriaenssen's excellent book follows its topics from the medieval controversy over species through the early moderns. A final part gives an overview of the debates. Throughout, Adriaenssen's work achieves a high level of clarity and insight.The chief subject of controversy is indirect realism, the view that an extra-mental object x "is cognized (...)
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    The Refutation of Scepticism[REVIEW]Michael Andolina - 1987 - Idealistic Studies 17 (3):278-279.
    Professor Grayling’s book provides an illuminating and insightful analysis of one variety of epistemological scepticism. It is not a study of scepticism per se; rather, it is an attempt to refute the claim that we can never be satisfactorily justified in our general assertions about the world.
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    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 or Platonism?: The Philosophy of the Fourth Academy.Harold Tarrant - 1985 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    In the first half of the first century BC the Academy of Athens broke up in disarray. From the wreckage of the semi-sceptical school there arose the new dogmatic philosophy of Antiochus, synthesized from Stoicism and Platonism, and the hardline Pyrrhonist scepticism of Aenesidemus. With his extensive knowledge of the ways in which Plato was read and invoked as an authority in late antiquity Dr Tarrant builds a most impressive reconstruction of Philo of Larissa's brand of Platonism and of (...)
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    The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism By Barry Stroud Oxford University Press, 1984, xiv + 277 pp., £ 15.00, £6.95 paper. [REVIEW]Edward Craig - 1985 - Philosophy 60 (234):548-.
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    Greek Scepticism: Anti-Realist Trends in Ancient Thought.Leo Groarke - 1990 - McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP.
    The idea that Western philosophy is a footnote to Plato is simplistic and inaccurate. Much of modern and contemporary epistemology owes a debt not so much to Platonism or Aristotelianism as to their antithesis: scepticism. Recent discussions in the history of philosophy have sparked a great deal of interest in the ancient sceptics, but until now they have been misunderstood and the significance of their philosophy not fully appreciated.
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  46. McDowell, scepticism, and the 'veil of perception'.David Macarthur - 2003 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (2):175-190.
    McDowell has argued that external world scepticism is a pressing problem only in so far as we accept, on the basis of the argument from illusion, the claim that perceiving that p and hallucinating that p involve a highest common factor.
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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 and Certainty in Salomon Maimon’s Theory of Invention.Idit Chikurel - 2024 - In Michela Torbidoni (ed.), 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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  49. Scepticism about Grounding.Chris Daly - 2012 - In Fabrice Correia & Benjamin Schnieder (eds.), Metaphysical grounding: understanding the structure of reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 81.
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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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