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Boorman, Lola. "Lydia Davis’s Grammatical Examples." Twentieth Century Literature 69, no. 3 (2023): 271–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0041462x-10814813.

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Critics have always struggled to situate the work of short story writer and translator Lydia Davis within wider trends in postwar and contemporary literature. Paying particular attention to a group of Davis’s “grammar stories,” this essay reads Davis’s fiction as Wittgensteinian “grammatical investigations” that attempt to work against what Toril Moi has described as the “generalized doubt” that characterized the theoretical and aesthetic “skepticism” of postmodernism. Davis’s commitment to this process situates her work within post-postmodern debates about doubt and belief, but reframes these

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ZHAO, HENRY Y. H. "A fearful symmetry: the novel of the future in twentieth-century China." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 66, no. 3 (2003): 456–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x03000326.

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The ‘novel of the future’ speculates on the ‘temporal’ utopia/dystopia. Its strange fate in modern China reveals much about the relationship between imagination, ideology and modernity in the Chinese mindset. Prior to the concept of modernity being imported into China there had been no fiction about the future. For, in traditional China, history did not have directionality. Two powerful Western ideologies, both ‘progressive’, took turns to dominate modern China. Social Darwinism led to the great explosion of the novel of the future in the early twentieth century. From the 1920s onwards, with M

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Yurchuk, O., and O. Chaplinska. "THE POETICS OF THE MYSTICAL IN FICTION: THEORETICAL ASPECT." Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка. Філологічні науки, no. 2(103) (November 25, 2024): 42–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.35433/philology.2(103).2024.42-52.

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The article determines that the concept of the mystical in contemporary literary studies is viewed upon in both narrow and broad senses. The beginnings of the integration of the mystical component into literary works date back to the Middle Ages, when the fundamental unio mystica served as a guiding principle for artistic and literary activities. According to the Western European medieval tradition, the understanding of the mystical was dominated by the search for refuge in the contemplation of Scripture or the need for the enjoyment of the inner rhythms of the soul in a state of grace, thus l

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Sipkina, Nina Ya. "Anti-Fairy Tales in the Works by Vladimir Vysotsky and Robert Rozhdestvensky: Genesis and Artistic Findings." World of the Russian Word, no. 3 (2023): 42–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu30.2023.305.

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The author explores, for the first time, Vladimir Vysotsky’s anti-fairy tales (“The Fairy Tale Song about Evil Spirits”, “There is no more Lukomorye”, “Verses of Evil Spirits”) and Robert Rozhdestvensky (“The Tale of the Blacksmith who Stole a Horse”, “The Monologue of the King of Animals”) in a comparative aspect. These texts have common foundations with folklore genres (myth, bylichka (folkloric account), byvalschina (true story), fairy tale) and literary fairy tale. The purpose of the article is to disclose the artistic features and the genesis of the anti- fairy talesby Vysotsky and Rozhde

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Handke, Ryszard. "Powieść SF uwalniająca się od politycznych serwitutów." Colloquia Humanistica, no. 1 (July 22, 2015): 209–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.11649/ch.2012.013.

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Science-Fiction Novel Liberates Itself from Political DuesThe present issue of "Colloquia Humanistica" contains Professor Ryszard Handke's two last essays, until now unpublished. They belong together and deal with the works of Stanisław Lem, namely with the creation of a sui generis dictionary of this outstanding sci-fi writer. Handke highlights the coming of a new age in the evolution of the genre, already foreshadowed in Lem's early novels. This new sci-fi abandons uncritical beliefs in the power of science leading man to the conquest of cosmos and to a perfection of Earth's civilization. In

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Handke, Ryszard. "Narzędzia językowe w sytuacji ekstremalnej. Stanisława Lema fantastyczne światy ze słów." Colloquia Humanistica, no. 1 (July 22, 2015): 159–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.11649/ch.2012.012.

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Linguistic Tools in an Extreme Situation. Stanisław Lem’s Fantastic Worlds Built with WordsThe present issue of "Colloquia Humanistica" contains Professor Ryszard Handke's two last essays, until now unpublished. They belong together and deal with the works of Stanisław Lem, namely with the creation of a sui generis dictionary of this outstanding sci-fi writer. Handke highlights the coming of a new age in the evolution of the genre, already foreshadowed in Lem's early novels. This new sci-fi abandons uncritical beliefs in the power of science leading man to the conquest of cosmos and to a perfe

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Matt Kavanagh. "Belief in Doubt." American Book Review 31, no. 4 (2010): 21–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.0.0143.

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Peter Y. Paik. "The Fiction of Belief." Science Fiction Studies 45, no. 1 (2018): 184. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.45.1.0184.

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Herzog, Todd. "Crime Stories: Criminal, Society, and the Modernist Case History." Representations 80, no. 1 (2002): 34–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2002.80.1.34.

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THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES the role that the case history plays in distinguishing criminal from noncriminal. It focuses on a remarkable moment in the development of the criminal case history: the ambitious but short-lived series Außßenseiter der Gesellschaft——die Verbrechen der Gegenwart (Outsiders of Society——the Crimes of Today), published in Germany in 1924-25. In a project without precedent in German literature, the series enlisted the talents of some of Germany's and Austria's most important novelists and journalists to write book-length studies of recent sensational criminal cases. The topics

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Eddy, G. Thackeray. "Book Reviews : Belief and Doubt." Expository Times 96, no. 6 (1985): 188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001452468509600626.

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Ripatrazone, Nick. "Does Belief Matter in Fiction?" Sewanee Review 124, no. 2 (2016): 314–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sew.2016.0043.

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Wieland, Nellie. "Escaping Fiction." Croatian journal of philosophy 24, no. 70 (2024): 81–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.52685/cjp.24.70.6.

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In this paper I argue that a norm of literary fiction is to compel the reader to form beliefs about the world as it is. It may seem wrong to suggest that the reason I believe p is because I imagined p, yet literary fiction can make this the case. I argue for an account grounded in indexed doxastic susceptibilities mapped between a fictional context and the particular properties of a reader, more specifically the susceptibilities in her beliefs, attitudes, and psychological states. Works of fiction can be about different things at the same time, some of which are fictive and some of which are f

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New, C. "WALTON ON IMAGINATION, BELIEF AND FICTION." British Journal of Aesthetics 36, no. 2 (1996): 159–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/36.2.159.

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Bergbom, Ingegerd Lilian, Unni Lindström, Katie Eriksson, and Dagfinn Nåden. "Understanding the Meaning of Doubt, Despair, and Belief in Caring Sciences." International Journal for Human Caring 25, no. 2 (2021): 89–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.20467/humancaring-d-20-00031.

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Healthcare professionals encounter patients' and relatives' expressions of doubt, despair, and hope in relation to illness and suffering. These feelings and experiences are often challenging for patients, relatives, and carers to face. The article's purpose is to describe and discuss how the meaning of doubt, despair, dread, and belief can be understood through Kierkegaard's and Spinoza's philosophical thoughts, thus contributing to a deeper understanding of caring and knowledge in caring science. Dread, doubt, and despair have their roots in grief and powerlessness but are also connected to b

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Salmon, Nathan. "Being of Two Minds: Belief with Doubt." Noûs 29, no. 1 (1995): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2215724.

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Kasser, Jeff. "Genuine belief and genuine doubt in Peirce." European Journal of Philosophy 26, no. 2 (2018): 840–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12360.

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Gardiner, Georgi. "Banal Skepticism and the Errors of Doubt." Midwest Studies in Philosophy 45 (2021): 393–421. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/msp20219217.

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Ephecticism is the tendency towards suspension of belief. Epistemology often focuses on the error of believing when one ought to doubt. The converse error—doubting when one ought to believe—is relatively underexplored. This essay examines the errors of undue doubt. I draw on the relevant alternatives framework to diagnose and remedy undue doubts about rape accusations. Doubters tend to invoke standards for belief that are too demanding, for example, and underestimate how farfetched uneliminated error possibilities are. They mistake seeing how incriminating evidence is compatible with innocence

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Lakoff, Sanford. "Autonomy and Liberal Democracy." Review of Politics 52, no. 3 (1990): 378–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003467050001696x.

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Continuing philosophic doubt concerning the moral foundations of human rights threatens to undermine the growing belief in liberal democracy. This doubt has its roots in the reaction against the Enlightenment and is evident even in John Rawls's retreat from the apparent universalism of his theory of justice. There are good grounds, however, for regarding the traditional Western belief in moral and political autonomy as a sound basis for human rights and liberal democracy.

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Bodrov, Andrei L., and Alexander M. Dorozhkin. "Doubt and belief as sources of tacit knowledge in scientific search." Digital Scholar: Philosopher`s Lab 7, no. 4 (2024): 60–77. https://doi.org/10.32326/2618-9267-2024-7-4-60-77.

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The article attempts to determine the role of doubt and belief as sources of tacit knowledge in scientific search. The analysis showed that belief turns into doubt when a new problematic situation begins to form, and the existing system of knowledge cannot explain new facts. The reverse process of doubt turning into belief gradually de-velops. Thus, a dialectical unity of these categories is formed, which contributes to the progress of scientific knowledge. The principle of doubt, pro-voking the creation of a problematic situation in scientific search, transforms the certainty of the existing

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Richards, Christine. "Belief and Context Determinacy in Interpreting Fiction." diacritics 28, no. 2 (1998): 81–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dia.1998.0016.

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BALINCHENKO, Svitlana. "PROPOSITIONAL SHORTCOMINGS IN MODELING OF THE FUTURE IN THE CONTEXT OF Ch.S. PEIRCE’S PRAGMATISM: BASED ON POSTCONFLICT SCENARIOS." Filosofska dumka (Philosophical Thought) -, no. 1 (2025): 192–207. https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2025.01.192.

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Ch.S. Peirce in 1902–1905 publications, in particular, “What is Pragmatism?” (in The Monist), while explaining the essentials of pragmatism, defines belief as a state of a self-satisfied habit, in contrast with doubt as the privation of habit, the state that tends to be a condition to erratic activity. Moreover, Ch.S. Peirce points out that the possibilities and limitations of probability description and assessment can be realized in future actions only, as they denote the sphere of practice in which it is possible to develop self-control through self-preparation, employing belief and doubt, f

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McKaughan, Daniel J. "Faith Through the Dark of Night." Faith and Philosophy 35, no. 2 (2018): 195–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/faithphil2018327101.

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Faith plays a valuable role in sustaining relationships through various kinds of challenges, including through evidentially unfavorable circumstances and periods of significant doubt. But if, as is widely assumed, both faith in God and faith that God exists require belief that God exists, and if one’s beliefs are properly responsive to one’s evidence, the capacity for faith to persevere amidst significant and well-grounded doubt will be fairly limited. Taking Mother Teresa as an exemplar of Christian faith and exploring the close connection between faith and faithfulness in the context of comm

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Moon, Andrew. "The nature of doubt and a new puzzle about belief, doubt, and confidence." Synthese 195, no. 4 (2017): 1827–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1310-y.

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Pritchard, Duncan. "Truth, Inquiry, Doubt." Midwest Studies in Philosophy 45 (2021): 505–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/msp202110611.

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What is the relationship between inquiry and doubt? Understanding this relationship involves confronting a range of questions. These include: what is required to motivate inquiry, what does it take to legitimately settle inquiry, and what is the goal of inquiry (is this just whatever legitimately settles inquiry, or can it be something distinct)? These questions will be approached via the consideration of an influential proposal regarding the relationship between belief, doubt and inquiry offered in recent work by Jane Friedman. In critiquing this proposal we will be able to better understand

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TONG, HAO, and REN-XIN XU. "MAGNETARS: FACT OR FICTION?" International Journal of Modern Physics E 20, supp02 (2011): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218301311040530.

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Anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) and soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) are enigmatic pulsar-like objects. The energy budget is the fundamental problem in their studies. In the magnetar model, they are supposed to be powered by the extremely strong magnetic fields (≳ 1014 G ) of neutron stars. Observations for and against the magnetar model are both summarized. Considering the difficulties encountered by the magnetar model to comfortably understand more and more observations, one may doubt that AXPs and SGRs are really magnetars. If they are not magnetar candidates (including magnetar-based models)

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Scott, Mark S. M. "Faith and Doubt in Gilead: Beyond Spiritual Dichotomies." Christianity & Literature 70, no. 2 (2021): 142–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chy.2021.0015.

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Abstract: In this article, I explore the question of faith and doubt in Marilynne Robinson’s acclaimed Gilead tetralogy: Gilead (2004), Home (2008), Lila (2014), and Jack (2020). While the central characters serve as literary symbols for faith and doubt, at a deeper level they subvert their surface symbolic import, problematizing the well-worn dichotomy between “faith versus doubt.” I argue that Robinson’s theological fiction disrupts spiritual dichotomies, which creates space for open, collegial, and constructive engagement between religious and non-religious persons.

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Pinillos, N. Ángel. "Evidence Sensitivity as a Heuristic for Doubt." Midwest Studies in Philosophy 45 (2021): 223–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/msp202192910.

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Sensitivity-type principles are prominent in epistemology. They have the promise to explain our intuitive and considered reactions to a wide range of important cases in everyday life, science and philosophy. Despite this promise, philosophers have raised a number of very serious objections to the principles. Accordingly, I propose a different type of sensitivity account which, I believe, gets around these serious objections. An important feature of the new approach is that the principle I propose need not be true. Rather, it should be understood as a cognitive heuristic that tells us when some

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Pinillos, N. Ángel. "Evidence Sensitivity as a Heuristic for Doubt." Midwest Studies in Philosophy 45 (2021): 223–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/msp202192910.

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Sensitivity-type principles are prominent in epistemology. They have the promise to explain our intuitive and considered reactions to a wide range of important cases in everyday life, science and philosophy. Despite this promise, philosophers have raised a number of very serious objections to the principles. Accordingly, I propose a different type of sensitivity account which, I believe, gets around these serious objections. An important feature of the new approach is that the principle I propose need not be true. Rather, it should be understood as a cognitive heuristic that tells us when some

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Filipowicz, Stanisław, and Paweł Janowski. "Europe as Fiction." Civitas. Studia z Filozofii Polityki 11 (January 30, 2009): 40–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.35757/civ.2009.11.02.

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What is the meaning of the “Europe” and the idea of unity? For when did a “united” Europe exist? Back when German emperors ineffectively tried to enforce their rule on a territory which was none too large anyway? Or when they were entangled in a dispute with the papacy? Or during the crusades against the Catharists? Or maybe during the Reformation or during the French Revolution when new coalitions of opponents arose? During the Napoleonic Wars which in themselves pay testimony to ruptures and conflicts? The 20th century alone brought two wars. The first already signified, as Jan Patocka once

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Pyysia¨inen, Ilkka. "True fiction: Philosophy and psychology of religious belief." Philosophical Psychology 16, no. 1 (2003): 109–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0951508032000067716.

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Badura, Christopher, and Francesco Berto. "Truth in Fiction, Impossible Worlds, and Belief Revision." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97, no. 1 (2018): 178–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2018.1435698.

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DURU, Erdinç, Murat BALKIS, and Sibel DURU. "Procrastination Among Adults: The Role of Self-doubt, Fear of the Negative Evaluation, and Irrational/Rational Beliefs." Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies 23, no. 2 (2023): 79–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/jebp.2023.2.11.

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Procrastination is often associated with negative outcomes such as poor performance and well-being. Theoretical models suggest that individuals with an uncertain self-concept may be more prone to procrastination due to their fear of failing to meet the required standard. To investigate this issue from a cognitive perspective, a cross-sectional study was conducted to examine the relationships among self-doubt, fear of negative evaluation, procrastination, and rational/irrational beliefs. The study involved 344 highly educated adults (65.4% female, M= 37.51 years, SD = 8.53, range 21-63). Partic

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Davini, Claudio. "Charles S. Peirce and the Struggle Against Cartesian Scepticism. How the Doubt-Belief Dialectic Can Help Us Ignore the Possibility of a Wholesale Deception." RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA 78, no. 2 (2023): 213–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/sf2023-002002.

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In this article, the Author aims to critically piece together some Peircean responses to Cartesian scepticism, evaluating both their robustness and whether they might be of any use against contemporary formulations of the sceptical challenge. First, the Author analyses the 1860s Peircean answer to what can be considered the first kind of Cartesian scepticism - which arises, according to Peirce, from Descartes' theory of intuition and regards the unknowability of reality - and holds that such an answer is not satisfactory since scepticism, after being put out through the door, comes back in thr

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Googasian, Victoria. "Bothering to Believe: Acts of Faith in J. M. Coetzee's Late Novels." Novel 52, no. 2 (2019): 284–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-7546854.

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Abstract J. M. Coetzee's late fictions display a recurrent fascination with attitudes of faith and belief. This preoccupation has been read sometimes as an effort to reinvigorate the novel's engagement with materiality and embodied life, other times as an elegy to the waning power of belief in fiction. But belief is not a monolithic term in Coetzee's late work, nor does his disposition toward it remain static. This article examines two texts that display a related yet evolving concern with faith and belief—Elizabeth Costello (2003) and The Childhood of Jesus (2013). These works not only share

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Gleeson-White, Jane Lee. "Country and climate change in Alexis Wright's 'The Swan Book'." Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) 6 (March 7, 2017): 29–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.60162/swamphen.6.11503.

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Alexis Wright’s novel, The Swan Book (2013), set one hundred years in the future on a climate-changed Earth, introduces a new note into her fiction: that of doubt about hope. Extending postcolonial discussions of Wright’s fiction, this essay uses ecocriticism to consider Country and climate change in this novel. It argues that the element of doubt about hope, of despair even, evident in The Swan Book derives from the fact that for the first time in Wright’s fiction the essence of the land—Country—has been altered, by anthropogenically-caused climate change. Drawing on the work of ecocritics Ti

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Pelkmans, Mathijs. "The restlessness of doubt, and the tenacity of belief." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6, no. 1 (2016): 499–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau6.1.030.

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Cunningham, Donald J., James B. Schreiber, and Connie M. Moss. "Belief, Doubt and Reason: C. S. Peirce on education." Educational Philosophy and Theory 37, no. 2 (2005): 177–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2005.00108.x.

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Gasparov, Igor. "The Ethics of Doubt and the Formation of Belief." Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics III, no. 3 (2019): 279–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/2587-8719-2019-3-279-291.

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Rifai, Afga Sidiq. "KEBENARAN DAN KERAGUAN DALAM STUDI KEISLAMAN (TELAAH PEMIKIRAN CHARLES SANDER PEIRCE DALAM BUKU CONTEMPORARY ANALYTIC PHILOSHOPHY)." Jurnal Penelitian Agama 20, no. 1 (2019): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.24090/jpa.v20i1.2019.pp95-109.

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Theory of belief and doubt Charles Sander Peirce gives fresh air to the problems faced by Muslims who are trapped in madzhabiyah and class fanaticism. Charles S. Peirce with the theory of Pragmatism tries to pioneer new philosophical thinking, where good theory must lead to the discovery of new facts and the consequences of theoretical thinking in practice does not stop at doctrine and truth claims (truth claim). Arguments that want to be proposed are beliefs about the truth if a test can be carried out to find truths about their beliefs that will give meaning. In religious studies the approac

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Taneja, Preti. "Aftermath: Radical Doubt; Radical Hope." Journal of the British Academy 12 (May 22, 2024): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/jba/012.a14.

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Preti Taneja taught creative writing as part of Learning Together, Cambridge University’s prison education programme which took students into high-security prison to learn alongside incarcerated men. One of her first prison students was Usman Khan. Released on licence two years later, he went on to perpetrate the 2019 London Bridge terror attack in which Taneja’s Learning Together colleague Jack Merritt, and Saskia Jones were killed. Aftermath is Taneja’s 2021 award-winning work of abolitionist, lyric non-fiction about the attack: a searching lament on institutional violence and structural har

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Halley, Matthew R. "Audubon's famous banding experiment: fact or fiction?" Archives of Natural History 45, no. 1 (2018): 118–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2018.0487.

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John James Audubon has been hailed as the progenitor of bird banding in America, but the high rate of natal philopatry in banded Eastern Phoebes (Sayornis phoebe) that he reported is an outlier when compared to modern data. More troubling, a reconstruction of the timeline of events with multiple independent primary sources, shows that Audubon was not in Pennsylvania when he claimed to have re-sighted two banded phoebes there in 1805. These facts cast doubt on the veracity of his story.

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Machuca, Diego E. "Is Pyrrhonian Suspension Incompatible with Doubt?" Midwest Studies in Philosophy 45 (2021): 27–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/msp20219299.

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The Pyrrhonian skeptic’s stance, as described by Sextus Empiricus, is in good part defined by his suspending judgment or belief about all the matters he has so far investigated. Most interpreters of Pyrrhonism maintain that it is a mistake to understand this form of skepticism in terms of doubt because suspension as conceived of by the Pyrrhonist is markedly different from the state of doubt. In this article, I expound the reasons that have been offered in support of that prevailing view and assess their strength.

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Wilson, Deborah, and Susan Ketchin. "The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction." American Literature 67, no. 1 (1995): 182. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2928069.

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Andrews, Frances. "Introduction." Studies in Church History 52 (June 2016): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/stc.2015.1.

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Doubt is a promising subject of inquiry for historians. Its initial definition in the Oxford English Dictionary reads ‘[t]he (subjective) state of uncertainty with regard to the truth or reality of anything; undecidedness of belief or opinion’, which might be advocated as a necessary mindset for any historically inclined investigator embarking on research. Although not always articulated, historians constantly face the ‘state of uncertainty’ of knowledge of the past and the continuous need, therefore, to test the evidence. The compilers of the OED then, perhaps unwittingly, underscore the part

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McGhee, Patrick S. "Unbelief, the Senses and the Body in Nicholas Bownde'sThe vnbeleefe of S. Thomas(1608)." Studies in Church History 52 (June 2016): 266–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/stc.2015.15.

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Doubt and unbelief were central to the ways in which ministers and theologians in post-Reformation England thought and wrote about religion. Far from signalling spiritual failure, grappling with unbelief could be an important stage in developing the faith and religious understanding of the individual believer while establishing a role for physicality and the senses. Nicholas Bownde'sThe vnbeleefe of S. Thomas the Apostle, laid open for the comfort of all that desire to beleeue(1608) suggests that unbelief was relational and that belief required not only an acknowledgement of doubt but also ext

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Ungureanu, James C. "Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict." Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 73, no. 3 (2021): 173–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.56315/pscf9-21ungureanu.

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SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND THE PROTESTANT TRADITION: Retracing the Origins of Conflict by James C. Ungureanu. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. x + 358 pages. Hardcover; $50.00. ISBN: 9780822945819. *Mythical understandings about historical intersections of Christianity and science have a long history, and persist in our own day. Two American writers are usually cited as the architects of the mythology of inevitable warfare between science and religion: John William Draper (1811-1882) and Andrew Dickson White (1832-1919). Draper was a medical doctor, chemist, and historian. Whi

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Knoll, Benjamin, and Jana Riess. "“Infected With Doubt”: An Empirical Overview of Belief and Non-Belief in Contemporary American Mormonism." Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 50, no. 3 (2017): 1–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/dialjmormthou.50.3.0001.

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Suvorov, Mikhail. "Otherworldly Beings in Modern Yemeni Ethnographic and Fiction Literature." Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research 28, no. 1 (2022): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.31250/1238-5018-2022-28-1-23-30.

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The society of Yemen, which in many respects retains its traditional features, is characterized, among other matters, by a strong belief it the existence of otherworldly beings, such as jinn, ghoul, ghost, werewolf, etc. This paper is intended to discuss to what extent and in what way this belief is manifested in the modern ethnographic and fiction literature of Yemen. Appropriate fragments of short stories, novels, memoir and scholarly works of Yemeni authors help to clarify what Yemenis think about the nomenclature of supernatural creatures, about their appearances, abilities, habits and “sp

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Serkowska, Hanna. "D. D. jak dreszcz demencji." Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, no. 34 (January 11, 2019): 41–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pspsl.2018.34.2.

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The claim here is that cultural representations of dementia may benefit from the structure of crime fiction which appears therefore to be among the theme most suited genres. We do not know enough about the disease or its etiology (the “culprit” remains unknown), hence the situation of the sufferer befits that of enigma or suspense, fear or confusion, doubt and presumption, standardly deployed by detective stories. Crime fiction narratives underscore that which is at stake in dementia: the riddle of disappearing of the person affected, the puzzle of memory loss, the identity doubt which extends

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Powell, K. T. "Neil Murphy, Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt - An Analysis of the Epistemological Crisis in Modern Fiction." English 53, no. 207 (2004): 262–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/53.207.262.

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