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Swetly, Walter. "Metaontological skepticism." Diss., kostenfrei, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1001239997/34.

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Hawley, Patrick 1964. "Skepticism avoided." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17644.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2003.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-126).<br>I evaluate three replies to skepticism, drawing conclusions about the meaning of "justified", the viability of foundationalism, the value of knowledge, and the role of belief in rational action. In the first chapter, I examine the following skeptical argument: Something is justified only if justified by a justified thing; circular and infinite chains of justification are illegitimate; therefore, no belief is justified. A linguistic inves

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Thorsrud, Harald Christian. "Cicero's academic skepticism /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Raskin, David Barry. "Donald Judd's skepticism /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Fitton, Emily. "Maimon's post-Kantian skepticism." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/21131/.

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There is little doubt that Salomon Maimon was both highly respected by, and highly influential upon, his contemporaries; indeed, Kant himself referred to Maimon as the best of his critics. The appraisal and reformulation of the Kantian project detailed in Maimon’s Essay on Transcendental Philosophy played a significant role in determining the criteria of success for post-Kantian philosophy, and was thus crucial to the early development of German Idealism. Key aspects of Maimon’s transcendental philosophy remain, however, relatively obscure. In particular, it remains unclear to what degree Maim

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Gutherie, Luanne. "Contextualist Responses to Skepticism." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/22.

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External world skeptics argue that we have no knowledge of the external world. Contextualist theories of knowledge attempt to address the skeptical problem by maintaining that arguments for skepticism are effective only in certain contexts in which the standards for knowledge are so high that we cannot reach them. In ordinary contexts, however, the standards for knowledge fall back down to reachable levels and we again are able to have knowledge of the external world. In order to address the objection that contextualists confuse the standards for knowledge with the standards for warranted a

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Lorentz, Ben. "Nietzsche's Skepticism of Agency." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_hontheses/8.

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Nietzsche’s view of the self and will seems to culminate in a naturalistic account of human agency. If we understand Nietzsche as primarily a naturalist who thinks philosophy should more or less be modeled on the sciences whose investigations are restricted to empirical observation and whose explanations, like causal explanation, are natural (rather than supernatural), then ascribing a naturalistic account of human agency to Nietzsche is appropriate. However, I argue that attributing a naturalistic account of agency, or any account of agency to Nietzsche, misunderstands Nietzsche’s skepticism.

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Stoutenburg, Gregory Douglas. "Knowledge, infallibility, and skepticism." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6505.

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I argue that to know that a proposition is true one must have justification for being certain that the proposition is true. That is, one must have infallible epistemic justification for believing the proposition. It is widely accepted among epistemologists that we rarely, if ever, have such strong justification for our beliefs. It follows that there is precious little that we know. That conclusion is unacceptable to many philosophers. I argue that the positions that lead to the skeptical conclusion are well-motivated and that the skeptical conclusion is implicitly accepted by ordinary speakers

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Larsson, Anders, and Josefine Wannehag. "Professionell skepticism : Sambandet mellan personlighetsdrag och professionell skepticism med kön som betingande faktor." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-19546.

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Att kunna tillämpa professionell skepticism i det dagliga arbetet är en viktig egenskap för dagens revisorer. Vad som påverkar den professionella skepticismen är emellertid inte utrett inom tidigare forskning. Frågan om personlighetsdrag har en påverkan på professionell skepticism med hänsyn till kön som en betingande faktor har vi inte funnit någon forskning om. För att uppfylla syftet har en kvantitativ ansats applicerats och data har samlats in genom en enkätundersökning som ekonomistudenter på Högskolan Kristianstad och Jönköping International Business School har deltagit i. Studien har ti

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Wood, John. "Hegel's Critique of Ancient Skepticism." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/113.

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Recent work on the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel has emphasized his interest in skeptical concerns. These contemporary scholars argue that, despite common opinions to the contrary, Hegel actually had a very keen interest in skepticism, one that informed and motivated much of his overall project. While I welcome this recent literature, I argue here that contemporary scholars have overemphasized the importance of skepticism for Hegel. By looking closely at Hegel’s arguments against skepticism in the Phenomenology of Spirit, I argue that Hegel’s anti-skeptical arguments are in fact major failures. H

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Woodward, Jennifer. "CARTESIAN SKEPTICISM AS MORAL DILEMMA." UKnowledge, 2011. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/809.

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I argue that despite the fact that there can be no strong refutation of skepticism it remains that ignoring skeptical hypotheses and relying on one’s sensory experience are both sound epistemic practices. This argument comes in the form of arguing that we are justified in ignoring skeptical hypotheses on the grounds that (1) they are merely logically possible, and (2) the merely logically possible is rarely relevant in the context of everyday life. I suggest that (2) is true on the grounds that the context of everyday life is one in which our epistemic pursuit of truth is mixed with other prag

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Salvatore, Nicola Claudio. "Wittgensteinian epistemology and Cartesian skepticism." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9742.

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This work starts from three complementary and interdependent questions: 1) How should we interpret Wittgenstein’s anti-skeptical strategy as presented in On Certainty, and especially the elusive and yet central concept of ‘hinges’? 2) Can Wittgenstein’s strategy, when properly understood and developed, provide a satisfactory response to Cartesian skepticism? 3) Does a Wittgensteinian epistemology license epistemic relativism, and if so to what extent? In Chapter 1, I present Cartesian-style skepticism and its epistemological implications along with the Dretske-Nozick’s ‘relevant alternatives’

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O'Day, Kenneth Bartels. "Moral skepticism and practical reason." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187217.

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Three subtypes of alpha-2 adrenergic receptors (α₂AR) have been identified: α₂A, α₂B and α₂C. α₂ARs are known to mediate a number of functions in many tissues. It is not clear, however, what the distribution of α₂AR subtypes is in these tissues. The distribution of α₂AR subtypes is fundamental to understanding receptor function and the development of more effective and specific α₂-adrenergic agents for therapeutic use. The working hypothesis for this dissertation is that there are specific subtypes of α₂ARs in tissues and in cells that have discrete localizations and may subserve different phy

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Tien, Cheryl Marilyn. "Consumers' skepticism towards advertising claims." Thesis, Curtin University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2237.

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The purpose of this study is threefold. It investigates (a) how personal and social influences affect consumers’ skepticism toward advertising claims (CSA) and how CSA influences inferences of manipulative intent (IMI), (b) the mediating role of attitude toward the advertisement between IMI and product judgment and (c) the moderating roles of brand familiarity and perceived risk on consumers’ skepticism toward advertising, inferences of manipulative intent and product judgment.

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Rinard, Susanna (Susanna Margaret). "Reasoning one's way out of skepticism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68520.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, September 2011.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "September 2011."<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-53).<br>Many have thought that it is impossible to rationally persuade a skeptic that we have knowledge of the external world. My dissertation aims to show that this can be done. In chapter one I consider a common reason for complacency about skepticism. Many contemporary philosophers reject the skeptic's conclusion on the grounds that mere philosophical argument can't rationally und

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Wretman, Jennie, and Marie Samuelsson. "Professionell skepticism : nyckeln till revisorns objektivitet?" Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för ekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-19526.

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Syfte: En revisors oberoende är en grundläggande faktor för att säkerställa god kvalitet och hög tillförlitlighet på revisionen. Denna studie skall belysa en egenskap som har ett samband med en högkvalitativ revision, och som utgör en stor och betydelsefull del av revisorsyrket; professionell skepticism. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om där finns några samband mellan professionell skepticism och tre andra faktorer: objektivitet klientidentifikation kvalitetsförsämrande handlingar Metod: Vi har vid genomförandet av studien använt en kvantitativ metod där vi skickade ut en enkät till

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York, Brian D. "Practical Skepticism: Sextus Empiricus and Zhuangzi." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1398426220.

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Lampros, Alex Bowman Brady. "The relationship between Hegel and skepticism." [University Park, Pa.] : Pennsylvania State University, 2009. http://honors.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/EHT-28/index.html.

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Mueller, Michaela. "Epistemic Luck, Epistemic Agency, and Skepticism." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194139.

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In my dissertation I develop an account of perceptual knowledge through thinking about epistemic luck, epistemic agency, and skepticism. Two conditions are, as I claim, necessary and sufficient to render a true belief an instance of perceptual knowledge. These conditions are the luck-precluding condition and evidence-based justification. The luck-precluding conditions are external conditions, consisting in physical regularities in the world that allow us to arrive through our evidence at the truth in a systematic way. I claim that these luck-precluding conditions also allow us to avoid Gettier

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Fosner, Carmen. "Infinitism, Skepticism, and the Regress Problem." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/508128.

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Philosophy<br>Ph.D.<br>It is a common view that rationally held beliefs require reasons sufficient to justify them. One debate about the nature of justification is defined by the Regress Problem, which offers four different accounts of the structure of sufficient reasons. I argue against the more popular foundationalist and coherentist responses to the problem, contending that infinitism, (the view that the structure of justification-conferring reasons supporting a belief is endless), can provide a viable theory of adequate justification. The version of infinitism I defend entails adopting an

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Gardner, Emily A. "Narrative Structure and Reader Skepticism in Frankenstein." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1387214518.

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Andrew, James B. "Hume, Skepticism, and the Search for Foundations." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1396628762.

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Witt, John R. "Equipoise and Skepticism: Past, Present and Future." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1674.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2008.<br>Title from screen (viewed on June 2, 2009). Department of Philosophy, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Eric Mark Meslin, John J. Tilley, Timothy D. Lyons. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-52).

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Leon, Felipe Edwin. "Armchair knowledge and modal skepticism a rapprochement /." Diss., UC access only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=16&did=1871875161&SrchMode=1&sid=4&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1270059102&clientId=48051.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.<br>Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-166). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.

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Jordan, Jason M. "Causal Skepticism and the Destruction of Antiquity." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12117.

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ix, 325 p.<br>This dissertation examines the development of skeptical views concerning causation from the medieval to the early modern period. While causal skepticism is often overlooked by intellectual historians, I argue that, in spite of its typical motivation as a religious response to shibboleths of ancient philosophy that stood askance from the dogmas of Abrahamic theology, causal skepticism was the greatest intellectual development of post-antiquity and ultimately culminated into modern Science. The first chapter examines Hume's famous analysis of causation and serves as a foil for t

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Smith, Joseph Wayne. "The progress and rationality of philosophy as a cognitive enterprise : an essay in metaphilosophy." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1985. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs653.pdf.

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Kermode, Robert. "Why scepticism is not reasonable." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60070.

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The thesis is argued that Wittgenstein's response, unlike either Moore's or Wright's, is the right answer to scepticism about the existence of an external world. Moore offers his brief 'proof' as an alternative to developed, theoretical responses, which fall prey to higher-order scepticism. As it fails to address the intuitions which give rise to scepticism, however, it seems merely dogmatic. Wright's more detailed argument invokes a principle to delineate factual from non-factual claims and thereby turns the sceptical argument on itself, but depends on our accepting this fundamental epistemol

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Boaheng, Paul B. "Skepticism and practical reasoning in Hume's ethical theory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ51302.pdf.

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Smith, Jeremy Mark. "Conviction in the everyday : Joseph Conrad and skepticism." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59889.

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Heart of Darkness, Chance, and Lord Jim can be described as philosophical works if considered in light of "ordinary language" philosophy. Conrad wrestled with skepticism much as Wittgenstein later would, but his struggle with the "bewitchment" of skeptical thinking took a narratival form. His champion was Marlow, raconteur of the three novels, who recurrently loses and recovers his words and his capacity to tell (to judge, to narrate). In these works the Marlovian investigation of human convention, linguistic and otherwise, is shown to be a necessary but perilous task. The possibility that we

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Ambrose, Darren Charles. "Beyond Hegel : Levinas and the persistence of skepticism." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/106447/.

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The first part of our thesis will explore the nature and history of the development of Hegel’s reconciliatory self-determining philosophical science, by demonstrating how Hegel radicalises and reformulates the essence of skepticism as the principle of determinate negation. We will attempt to elucidate precisely why the persistence of external skepticism represents nothing more for Hegel than abstract dogmatism and philosophical naivety. In the second part of our thesis we will concentrate upon early 19th century post-Hegelian skeptical responses to Hegel’s speculative idealism. We will argue t

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Bertram, Benjamin Glenn. "Skepticism and social struggle in early modern England /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9804020.

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Blix, Leslie Helen. "Self Esteem: Its Overall Effect on Professional Skepticism." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1340.

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The performance evaluation process is both an important tool for accounting firms to assess the performance of employees and provides supervisors an opportunity to provide feedback to their subordinates. Supervisions, such as managers, will provide feedback to subordinates (senior auditors) numerous times throughout a fiscal year. Prior research has shown that performance evaluations are largely based on results of the subordinate based on task completion and budgeted hours. These types of performance evaluations have been linked to employee dissatisfaction and a decrease in overall job per

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Kifaya, Raja. "The role of skepticism in green consumer behaviour." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Brest, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023BRES0040.

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Le scepticisme du consommateur envers les entreprises va en augmentant. Cependant, les études sur les déterminants et les conséquences de ce phénomène sur les produits bio/vert font défaut. Afin de combler partiellement cette lacune, cette thèse porte sur le scepticisme vert en explorant et comparant des consommateurs issus de trois milieux culturels différents. Le premier essai vise à étudier la relation entre le scepticisme et le comportement d'achat des cosmétiques bio en se basant sur la théorie attitude-comportement-contexte (ABC). Le deuxième essai met en lumière l'effet psychologique du

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Buchanan, Reid. "Deflationary approaches to scepticism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0031/NQ66196.pdf.

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Wills, Bernard Newman Kroeker P. Travis. "The conversion of skepticism in Augustine's "Against the Academics" /." *McMaster only, 2003.

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Temler, Cecilia, and Marcus Nilsson. "Kan professionell skepticism användas för att förutse revisorers beteende?" Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-9627.

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Auditors have a big role in society. The question of auditor independence has been debated frequently after the financial crisis. Long auditor tenure with clients has both advantages and disadvantages so the question is hard to solve. One of the traits that are encouraged with auditors is professional skepticism. An important part of professional skepticism is the personal skepticism of the auditor. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate if a high professional skepticism can increase auditor independence by increasing profession identification and decreasing client identification.

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SKVIRSKY, ALEXANDRE ARANTES PEREIRA. "THE INTRODUCTION OF DOUBT IN SKEPTICISM IN THE RENAISSANCE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=25626@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>Sexto Empírico não fala de dúvida, e não faz uso deste conceito em sua clássica descrição do cético pirrônico. No entanto, desde a sua redescoberta na década de 1430 no contexto do humanismo florentino e até os dias atuais, o ceticismo é interpretado através da dúvida. Na presente tese, primeiramente mostramos que não há uma conexão direta entre o ceticismo pirrônico e o conceito de dúvida. Em seguida, analisamos alguns dos modos pelos quais a dúvida é introduzida no ceticismo

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Paakkunainen, Hille. "Towards the autonomy of ethics: Skepticism, agency, and normative commitment." UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 2012. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3485866.

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(basar), Baskaya Dilek. "Camus: A Rebel At The Junction Of Existentialism And Skepticism." Phd thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613263/index.pdf.

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ABSTRACT CAMUS: A REBEL AT THE JUNCTION OF EXISTENTIALISM AND SKEPTICISM (Basar) Baskaya, Dilek Ph.D., Department of Philosophy Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Halil Turan May 2011, 190 pages The purpose of this thesis is to examine Albert Camus&rsquo<br>s stance in existentialism and scepticism, to discuss his philosophy by referring to his life, which, in many respects, forms a foundation for his philosophy and to exhibit that he maintains his contemporariness in the 21st century. As existentialism is treated differently by different philosophers, the main concern of the thesis is to d

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Rasso, Jason Tyler. "Psychological Distance| The Relation Between Construals, Mindsets, and Professional Skepticism." Thesis, University of South Florida, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3558436.

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<p> In this study, I examine the influence of construals (interpretations) and mindsets on professional skepticism in auditors. Auditors have been criticized lately for not displaying enough professional skepticism, particularly in their audits of complex estimates (PCAOB 2008). Regulators speculate about and academic research shows a correlation between low professional skepticism and both audit failures and audit malpractice claims (Beasley et al. 2001; Anderson and Wolfe 2002). I hypothesize that prolonging the deliberative mindset in the audit judgment and decision-making process can in

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Rasso, Jason. "Psychological Distance: The Relation Between Construals, Mindsets, and Professional Skepticism." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4565.

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In this study, I examine the influence of construals (interpretations) and mindsets on professional skepticism in auditors. Auditors have been criticized lately for not displaying enough professional skepticism, particularly in their audits of complex estimates (PCAOB 2008). Regulators speculate about and academic research shows a correlation between low professional skepticism and both audit failures and audit malpractice claims (Beasley et al. 2001; Anderson and Wolfe 2002). I hypothesize that prolonging the deliberative mindset in the audit judgment and decision-making process can increa

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Nickell, Erin Burrell. "An Examination of Issues Related to Professional Skepticism in Auditing." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5354.

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The third general standard of fieldwork requires auditors to maintain a skeptical mindset with regards to the collection and critical assessment of audit evidence. While professional skepticism is frequently referenced by professional standards, a lack of precision in defining the concept presumably leads to variation in how skepticism is exercised in practice. Drawing on theories from the fields of psychology, economics and organizational justice, this dissertation considers different perspectives of what constitutes sufficient professional skepticism and examines how those perspectives diffe

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Lundin, Linnéa. "GREEN SKEPTICISM : How green intentions can lead to brown choices." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik, konst och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-85606.

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Although much is known about the conscious consumer, very little is known about green advertising. Given the growing attention placed on environmental issues and the heavy reliance of the consuming public on mass media, the dire lack of credibility in green advertising is in a shocking state. In fact, there has been a pronounced increase in green messages in advertising since the 1960s. This increase in green messages does not inherentlymean that there is a favorable consumer brand attitude formation. Instead, consumers have become increasingly skeptical of the environmental claims made by som

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Bohlin, Henrik. "Groundless knowledge : a Humean solution to the problem of skepticism." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Almquist & Wiksell, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb370669862.

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Lopez, Theresa. "The Moral Mind: Emotion, Evolution, and the Case for Skepticism." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293597.

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Recent work in empirical moral psychology has led to at least one point of consensus: intuitive, psychologically-spontaneous cognitive processes play a central and inescapable role in moral evaluation. However, among those who accept that intuitive processes play a central role there remains much debate concerning the underlying character of these intuitive processes, as well as their developmental and evolutionary origins. The two dominant approaches are represented by psychological sentimentalists, who hold that these underlying processes are essentially emotion-driven, and moral nativists,

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Appley, Bryan C. "Inference to the best explanation and the challenge of skepticism." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3041.

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In this dissertation I consider the problem of external world skepticism and attempts at providing an argument to the best explanation against it. In chapter one I consider several different ways of formulating the crucial skeptical argument, settling on an argument that centers on the question of whether we're justified in believing propositions about the external world. I then consider and reject several options for getting around this issue which I take to be inadequate. I finally conclude that the best option available to us at the moment is to argue that the antiskeptical view is the best

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Franklin, Anders. "En rund boll är en bra början : - Miniminivån som förslag till dellösning på demarkationsproblemet." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-118546.

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Abstrakt Syftet med uppsatsen är att utreda hur miniminivån, genom tidig markering av vissa företeelser som icke-vetenskapliga, kan bereda mark för en fullständig (eller åtminstone mer fullständig) lösning på demarkationsproblemet. I uppsatsen redogörs huvudsakligen för begreppet miniminivån samt ett förslag till ett kriterium som krävs för att uppnå miniminivån, nämligen kriteriet för taktisk skepticism. Miniminivån utgör ett nödvändigt villkor för att en företeelse ska klassas som vetenskap. Innan en företeelse kan mätas mot kriterier bortom miniminivån, som tillsammans med kriterierna på mi

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Lindner, Philip. "Det där är ingen icke-zebra! : epistemisk-deduktiv slutenhet och skepticism." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-52691.

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Departing from Fred Dretske’s groundbreaking article, this essay explore the epistemic closure principle: the principle that states that knowledge is closed under known implication. It also explores the relationship to skepticism, various attempts to challenge and defend the principle, as well as developing a new perspective where the skeptical premise is seen as an a priori justified tautology that can be overriden by a posteriori experience. I argue that Dretske’s illuminating example makes it clear that there is an unescapable choice between either rejecting a skeptical premise  however in

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Koppang, Michael C. "Manitoba aboriginal treaties as vehicles for self-government, sentiments and skepticism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq23368.pdf.

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Burdman, Federico. "Skepticism and Idealism in G.E Moore’s ‘Proof of an External World’”." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Departamento de Humanidades, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/112958.

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G.E. Moore’s argument in Proof of an External World” seems to beg the question against the skeptic and to miss the point of the challenge posed by skeptical hypotheses. I propose an interpretation that frees the argument from both charges. Starting from a distinction between the way Moore understood his dialectical position against the idealist and the skeptic, I attempt to illuminate the conception of skepticism that lies behind his argument. I propose that the argument’s core is found in a strong anti-Cartesian statement, even though its relevance for epistemology is to be found in its poten

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