Dead hands, or, how the French stopped the dead seizing the living by Counter, AJ

“…The French Revolution’s severe restriction of the right of bequest reflected and consolidated a longstanding French legal skepticism about the ability of the dead to control property and, through property, the living. …”

George Sand, antisex feminist by Counter, A

“…If Sand is not, ultimately, an antisex feminist, her novels are nevertheless thought‐provoking in their skepticism, or their pessimistic realism, about the possibility of a politically or ethically motivated reform of sex and desire.…”

What is spontaneous order? by Luban, D

“…The political implications of spontaneous order theory explain both the enthusiasm and the skepticism it has elicited, but its basic mechanisms remain elusive and underexamined. …”

The moral importance of reflective empathy by Persson, I, Savulescu, J

“…This is a reply to Jesse Prinz and Paul Bloom’s skepticism about the moral importance of empathy. It concedes that empathy is spontaneously biased to individuals who are spatio-temporally close, as well as discriminatory in other ways, and incapable of accommodating large numbers of individuals. …”

The open-endedness of the set concept and the semantics of set theory by Paseau, A

“…I end by expressing skepticism about the prospects of a so-called non-proof-based justification for this kind of revisionism about set theory. © 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers.…”

Conspiracist ideation as a predictor of climate-science rejection: an alternative analysis. by Dixon, R, Jones, J

“…Reanalysis of the survey data sets of Lewandowsky, Oberauer, and Gignac (2013) and Lewandowsky, Gignac, and Oberauer (2013) indicates that the conclusions of those articles—that conspiracist ideation predicts skepticism regarding the reality of anthropogenic climate change—are not supported by the data. …”

Dysfunctional audit behaviors: An exploratory study in Pakistan by Khan, Sadaf, Panatik, Siti Aisyah, Mohamed Saat, Maisarah

“…Second, the organizational behavior and industrial psychology literatures provide the basis for developing and testing a model that may identifies emotional intelligence as moderator in the relationship between professional skepticism, under reporting of time and premature sign off behaviors. …”

“Die Grenzen des Sagbaren”: H. G. Adler (on) Writing Literature after the Holocaust by Traci S. O’Brien

“…Taking the next step in our understanding of the testimony of Holocaust literature involves taking a step back to recuperate a theoretical approach that does not cede all human attempts at knowledge to skepticism. At odds with Theodor Adorno about the possibility of writing poetry after Auschwitz, Adler, a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, transformed his experiences into fiction. …”
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Hans Jonas' Ethics of Technology: Risks of Technological Society by Ciprian Turcan

“…In the second half of this century, the technological optimism gradually faded and was replaced by skepticism and negativism. Hans Jonas is among the first philosophers who managed to discern and appreciate the high-risk potential of technological power. …”
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Greening Public Buildings: ESCO-Contracting in Danish Municipalities by Jesper Rohr Hansen, Susanne Balslev Nielsen, Jesper Ole Jensen

“…Nevertheless, ESCO-contracting still faces many challenges on the Danish market, as there is a widespread skepticism towards the concept amongst many stakeholders. …”
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NEW MODES OF EMOTIONS IN MODERN CULTURE by Vadim V. Kortunov, Natalya R. Saenko

“…Post-irony allows a person, while remaining in a gray moral zone, to express skepticism about the clarity and comprehensibility of the world, and the new sincerity provides tools for reassembling the world and the soul wounded by totalitarian regimes, wars and terrorist attacks in art, which is studied on literary material, therefore the main method of research is hermeneutic. …”
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THE NEW RULES OF GREEN MARKETING- A BOOK REVIEW by Raluca-Mihaela SANDU

“…In recent years, people’s attitude changed from skepticism to positivism in what concerns green products and the trend is to include them into their lives as usual commodities. …”
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Connecting Laws to Climates: A Timely Challenge for Reflexive Lawyers by Tobias Arnoldussen

“…These paradoxes are linked to the politicization of law, societal skepticism of science, and the role of the non-human within the legal order. …”
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COMMON DYNAMICS IN THE EU INTEGRATION PATH OF THE WESTERN BALKANS by Jubjana VILA

“…The EU Integration has emerged as a shared key priority for the EU institutions and Western Balkan countries that are in different trajectories of the accession process due to several dynamics and developments within the Western Balkan countries, regional dynamics, and enlargement skepticism among EU member states. While a comprehensive academic thinking exists about the EU's enlargement policy at its approach to this region, this study aims to understand the internal/regional dynamics in the EU integration path of Western Balkan countries through an overview of their history of integration as well as the EC Progress Reports (2022) for each country. …”
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Interviewing K-12 education experts and elites by Jose Eos Trinidad, Jose Eos Trinidad

“…Understanding education experts and elites is crucial in the context of their larger influence on education and the public’s greater skepticism and criticism of their work. This paper distinguishes between traditional and expert/elite interviews (EEIs), and highlights strategies for conducting them. …”
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An Investigation of the Contrast between Modernism and Mythology in the Works of “Hooshang Golshiri” by reza satari

“…The literature that has in it such elements as skepticism, rule evasion, and norm enhancement disintegrates and reconstructs everything. …”
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“This is My Story”: Why People in Prison Participate in Qualitative Research by Martín Hernán Di Marco, Sveinung Sandberg

“…We also discuss stories that indicate a different direction, namely e) skepticism regarding research participation. The stories are discussed in view of self-presentations, the prison context, and issues of consent. …”
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CHINA THREAT THEORY: A CULTURAL INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE MASS MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE 19TH CONGRESS by Mert Çetin, Hakan Cavlak

“…This study examines skepticism of the Western societies towards China’s growth which manifests itself on the Western mass media coverage of the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th congress based on cultural-institutional approach.  …”
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Non-Theurgy: Iamblichus and Laruelle by Stanimir Panayotov

“…The Vision-in-One is an attempt to materialize the disembodied fate of the noema against realistic skepticism.   …”
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Making Sense of the Empire’s Others:Mikhail Chulkov’s Dictionary of Russian Superstitions and the European Enlightenment by W. Forrest Holden

“…By comparing the various categories of people described in the dictionary, the article argues that Chulkov’s vision of the Others of the Russian Empire was characterized by a sympathy towards Orthodox Christians and a skepticism about the ability of non-Orthodox subjects of the empire to become civilized. …”
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