List: Skepticism | Curated by Douglas C. Bates

May 8, 2024
49 stories
Skepticism
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Practical Rationality
by
Gregory Sadler
Cicero’s On The Nature Of The Gods: Arguments For The Existence of God(s)an Epicurean, a Stoic, and a Skeptic walk into a dialogue. . .
May 3, 2024
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May 3, 2024
1
In
The Sophist
by
Steven Gambardella
The SophistsAnd why my blog is named after them
Mar 30, 2024
4
Mar 30, 2024
4
In
The Panopticon
by
Argumentative Penguin
Israel, Palestine And The Lost Skill Of Defending NazisPraise bounteous providence that grants ogres a tiny glow-worm of tenderness in icy caverns of a cruel heart. (Chinua Achebe)
Oct 12, 2023
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Oct 12, 2023
64
In
Inserting Philosophy
by
Douglas Giles, PhD
Hume’s Critique of ScienceHume showed that science is based on three assumptions that have no rational basis.
Sep 15, 2023
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Sep 15, 2023
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Mary Braun, MD
Depressing Beliefs and Stoic TherapiesAs far back as medical records go, physicians have been part therapist, part philosopher, part translational scientist. Today in semi-rural…
Sep 10, 2023
Sep 10, 2023
Nir Zicherman
The Dress, the Democracy, the DivideExploring Our Inability To See Things From The Perspective Of Another
Sep 5, 2023
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Sep 5, 2023
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Greg Satell
Here’s What It Takes To Change Someone’s MindThere are a number of new techniques that can help us be much more persuasive, but they don’t require brilliant sophistry or snappy…
Jun 10, 2023
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Jun 10, 2023
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Mark Manson
Why I’m Wrong About Everything (And So Are You)F ive hundred years ago cartographers believed California was an island. Doctors believed that slicing your arm open and bleeding…
Jul 31, 2023
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Jul 31, 2023
63
In
The Arctic Circular
by
Argumentative Penguin
Uh Oh, You’ve Finally Realised Your Ideology Is Your Personality?What to do when you don’t really know who you are
Jul 14, 2023
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Jul 14, 2023
22
Heroes in the Seaweed
On the Concept and Political History of RelativismRight, Left, LRight, Left, Right …
Jun 21, 2023
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Jun 21, 2023
2
In
Books Are Our Superpower
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Aure's Notes
What I’ve Learned Reading and Summarizing 100 BooksIt’s a lot.
Jun 16, 2023
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Jun 16, 2023
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Harold De Gauche
Western Propaganda — The Greatest Trick The Devil Ever Pulled …Good propaganda doesn’t make you think, it makes you feel
May 1, 2023
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May 1, 2023
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Gage Greer
How Michel de Montaigne Accidentally Overcame His Fear of DeathThe art of living as trying
Feb 3, 2023
3
Feb 3, 2023
3
In
resourceful eXformation
by
Francis Laleman
How most of our opinions are false(on having wrong views, three kinds of wisdom, and where to go next)
Jul 1, 2022
1
Jul 1, 2022
1
Will Buckingham
Sounds Plausible? The Philosophy of Carneades
Apr 5, 2023
1
Apr 5, 2023
1
In
Mind Cafe
by
Peter Burns
The Great Trick Charles Darwin Used To Better Understand The WorldHere’s how to apply Charles Darwin’s Golden Rule.
Feb 13, 2023
2
Feb 13, 2023
2
In
The Writing Cooperative
by
Emilina Lomas
How Writers Can Use Epistemic Humility To Write Better ContentControversy gets clicks. But humility builds an audience.
Mar 28, 2023
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Mar 28, 2023
56
In
Rebooting the trivium
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Heroes in the Seaweed
Why we tend to believe things that aren’t truePierre Bayle on our love of flattering and popular illusions
Mar 4, 2023
Mar 4, 2023
Abu Musa
Intellectual Arrogance, Al-Khidr and the Limits of KnowledgeA reflection on the need to reconsider ideas, study, reflect and accept what we do not know
Feb 26, 2023
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Feb 26, 2023
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Will Buckingham
Knowing, Doing, and Doubting: Nyāya PhilosophyFor the philosophers of the Nyāya school, the role of knowledge was to make effective action possible.
Feb 7, 2023
Feb 7, 2023