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Failings of Nessie Debunkers and of Debunkers in General
Published 2024-04-01“…Such evasion or avoidance constitutes a strategy of misdirection, as does the insistence that, since Nessies are not recognized by “science,” therefore taking their possible existence seriously amounts to doing pseudo-science. Debunkers arguably irrational and go beyond the evidence in declaring that Nessies are definitely non-existent. …”
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Genealogy beyond debunking
Published 2023“…The upshot is a general account of genealogy beyond debunking. …”
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Evolutionary Debunking Arguments.
Published 2011“…Evolutionary debunking arguments (EDAs) are arguments that appeal to the evolutionary origins of evaluative beliefs to undermine their justification. …”
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Evolutionary debunking arguments in ethics
Published 2014“…<p>I consider whether evolutionary explanations can debunk our moral beliefs. Most contemporary discussion in this area is centred on the question of whether debunking implications follow from our ability to explain elements of human morality in terms of natural selection, given that there has been no selection for true moral beliefs. …”
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Aesthetic Debunking and the Transcendental Argument of the Novel
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Exiting the State and Debunking the State of Nature
Published 2017-06-01“…In this paper, I distinguish sharply between two concepts of enlightenment, enlightenment lite and heavy duty or radical enlightement ; show how there is an unbridgeable gap between Kant’s official political theory in The Doctrine of Right and his ethics; show how Kant’s real political theory is worked out in Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, and is in fact a heavy-duty, radically enlightened version of anarchism; refute and debunk widely-believed Hobbesian assumptions about human nature, which are in fact nothing but cognitive illusions; and propose a de-biasing strategy in political aesthetics for ridding ourselves of these Hobbesian cognitive illusions.…”
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Evolutionary explanations and the debunking of moral beliefs
Published 2020“…If how-possibly explanations are not debunking, then both Street's (global) and de Lazari-Radek and Singer's (selective) debunking arguments fail. …”
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Debunking rumors on social media : the use of denials
Published 2021“…The literature currently lacks an understanding of how denials can be crafted to effectively debunk rumors on social media. Underpinned by the theory of planned behavior, this research develops denials by incorporating salient beliefs to enhance users’ likelihood to share such messages. …”
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IS Ideology: Debunking its Pseudo-Religious Character
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Evolutionary debunking arguments against theism, reconsidered
Published 2014“…Evolutionary debunking arguments (EDAs) against religious beliefs move from the claim that religious beliefs are caused by off-track processes to the conclusion that said religious beliefs are unjustified and/or false. …”
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Debunking the myth of money in a multigenerational workforce
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