Skepticism, spelled scepticism in British English, is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma. Skeptics normally recommend not disbelief but suspension of belief, maintaining a neutral attitude that neither affirms nor denies a claim, often because the available evidence seems insufficient to support it. Formally, skepticism is a topic of interest in philosophy, particularly in epistemology, and some theorists distinguish good or moderate skepticism, which seeks strong evidence before accepting a position, from radical skepticism. This entry is the general tradition, of which the ancient schools recorded separately in this atlas, Pyrrhonism and Academic Skepticism, are particular forms.
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Skepticism (US) or scepticism (UK) is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma.
In Tradition: Ancient Philosophy, Article text
There were two major schools of skepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world.
View the SourceFrancisco Sanches (Wikipedia)
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was a Hispano-Portuguese skeptic, philosopher and physician
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was a Hispano-Portuguese skeptic, philosopher and physician
View the SourcePierre Bayle (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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the oldest interpretation of Bayle is that he was a skeptic
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the oldest interpretation of Bayle is that he was a skeptic
View the SourceSalomon Maimon (Wikipedia)
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By this critical scepticism Maimon takes up a position intermediate between Kant and Hume.
Gottlob Ernst Schulze (Wikipedia)
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a skeptical polemic against Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Karl Leonhard Reinhold's Elementary Philosophy
Pierre Charron (Wikipedia)
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He is remembered for his controversial form of skepticism and his separation of ethics from religion as an independent philosophical discipline.
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He is remembered for his controversial form of skepticism and his separation of ethics from religion as an independent philosophical discipline.
View the SourceUriel da Costa (Wikipedia)
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it also expresses rationalistic and sceptical views
Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Associated With: Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, Maxims, skepticism
Sablé often confesses skepticism concerning the claims of human knowledge.
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Sablé often confesses skepticism concerning the claims of human knowledge.
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