Skepticism is about questioning rather than automatically believing what you are presented such as that post on social media or on some random website. However, unlike cynicism, it doesn't necessarily ...

But skepticism’s purist definition is to doubt the truth of something, or philosophically to even believe that certain forms of knowledge are impossible. So what would you say if we argued that ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 162, No. 2 (January 2013), pp. 143-163 (21 pages) The purpose of this paper is to provide a justification ...

Radical skepticism relies on the hypothesis that one could be completely cut off from the external world. In this paper, I argue that this hypothesis can be rationally motivated by means of a ...

What follows is a very rough summary of some of the main responses to Cartesian Skepticism. It is not a substitute for the assigned texts on the topic. 1. The "Natural Belief" Strategy A "natural ...

A few months ago, I posed the following question to an online sample of several hundred American adults: Think about all of the disagreements that you have with other people – from minor disagreements ...