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Two Cheers and a Pint of Worry: An On-Line Course in Political and Social Philosophy
Published 2019-03-01“…Athough my initial skepticism about such courses has been modified, I still believe that there is something valuable about the direct, face-to-face, encounter of teacher and student that is not easily compensated for in computer-mediated learning. …”
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RESOLVING THE QUESTION OF DOUBT: GEOMETRICAL DEMONSTRATION IN THE MEDITATIONS
Published 2012-11-01“…The process of doubt in Meditation I gives one the impression of a rather extreme form of skepticism, while the responses Descartes offers in the Objections and Replies make it clear that there is in fact a whole background of presuppositions that are never doubted, including many that are never even entertained as possible candidates of doubt. …”
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Factors impacting vaccine hesitancy toward Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) vaccination in Brooklyn, New York
Published 2021-11-01“…However, current research suggests that the potential of successful vaccines is tempered by vaccine skepticism or hesitancy. If vaccine efficacy is 80%, then the herd immunity required from vaccination is about 75-90%. …”
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Will the public take a universal influenza vaccine?: the need for social and behavioral science research
Published 2020-08-01“…Mixed methods research finds multiple factors associated with this phenomenon including misconceptions about the vaccine, skepticism about an annual vaccine, concerns about efficacy and safety, lack of knowledge, perceived risk, among others. …”
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Cool Minds in Heated Debates? Migration-related Attitudes in Germany Before and After a Natural Intervention
Published 2012-05-01“…Data from the Transatlantic Trends: Immigration survey was used to investigate whether the debate surrounding Thilo Sarrazin’s immigration-skeptical Deutschland schafft sich ab (Germany abolishes itself) had any impact on migration-related attitudes in Germany. …”
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China and its region: An assessment of hegemonic prospects
Published 2022-01-01“…The overall results induce skepticism about the latter's ability to reorder the region. …”
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Using Workplace Personality to Guide Improvement of Law Enforcement Selection
Published 2022-11-01“…Overall, scales measuring Emotional Stability, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Excitability, and Skepticism seem job-relevant across samples, predictive of performance, and unlikely to cause adverse impact. …”
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Useful Knowledge and Beautiful Knowledge in Dewey and Thoreau
Published 2017-06-01“…Those limitations are to be understood in terms of a restricted account of problem-solving, instrumentalism, unqualified aversion to skepticism, and the absence of a tragic sense. Yet a greater sensitivity to these matters is there recessively in Dewey’s writings, and the reading of his work contrapuntally with aspects of Thoreau’s, helps to bring these to light. …”
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Le fourvoiement paradoxal du Magisterio de la fe y de la razón (1761) du père Calatayud dans sa guerre contre une hétérodoxie virale : le “libertinage philosophique”
Published 2009-06-01“…In Calatayud’s view, Christian skepticism, which runs the new experimental science, through probabilism or new Cartesian “dogmatism” at the origin of the refoundation of Physics and Metaphysics, is the expression of a wandering and arrogant reason, which does not generate any true certainty but a thunder of opinions gathered against orthodoxy. …”
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Is There a Future for Minimal Access and Robots in Cardiac Surgery?
Published 2023-09-01“…As a result, the concept of minimally invasive cardiac surgery may be viewed with skepticism. In this review, we examine the current status and potential future perspectives of minimally invasive and robotic cardiac surgery.…”
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100% renewable energy policies in U.S. cities: strategies, recommendations, and implementation challenges
Published 2019-01-01“…The leading supportive frame other than greenhouse-gas emissions was local job creation, and the leading frame for opposition or skepticism was affordability. Recommendations and political strategy for advocates are discussed, and an analysis of implementation strategy is also provided. …”
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A Most Eminent Victorian: Thomas Henry Huxley
Published 2013-04-01“…Approaching Darwin’s theory in the spirit of Goethe’s Thatige Skepsis or active skepticism, he showed that most of the “scientific” objections to evolution were at their root religiously based. …”
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Dretske on Closure of Knowledge and Its Rereading in Justification Logic
Published 2020-09-01“…Therefore, if we continue to insist on full adherence to the closure of knowledge, we will inevitably accept skepticism, and it is no way to exclude this epistemological principle and reject the axiom of K. …”
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Distance Learning as a Means of Digital Skills Development in High School and University Students
Published 2022-01-01“…The constraining factors included emotional and volitional immaturity, orientation to hedonistic values, confidence in one’s own digital competence, and skepticism regarding the ability of distance education to promote professional development.…”
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Moral Implications of Augustine's Philosophical and Spiritual Journey in his Confessiones
Published 2015-05-01“…Youthful hedonism gave way to Skepticism, Manichaeism, and later on to Neo-Platonism as he searched for answers to some of the most pressing existential questions of mankind. …”
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“... is an open access, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal”: How open-access journals describe themselves in their “Aims and Scope” statements
Published 2023-12-01“…However, they are still viewed by some with skepticism. Given these conflicting perceptions, it would be important for LSP researchers and practitioners to understand OAJs better as they may need to work with students who are or will be part of the OS movement. …”
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Czy Europa zaakceptuje uprawy roślin genetycznie zmodyfikowanych? – argumenty i kontrargumenty
Published 2013-09-01“…The study contains a summary of claims that there is a serious potential risk to the environment of positive cultivation of GM crops, with uncertain effects, and that basic manipulation of heredity could have tragic consequences. European skepticism about GM crops increases from year to year. …”
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Free To Be… You and Me: the Best-Selling Record and Popular Show Which Made America Rethink Gender Stereotypes
Published 2021-12-01“…Although initially met with great skepticism, the record and consequent television show became huge hits, becoming the sound-track for a generation of children growing up in the 1970s. …”
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“Is it like academia.edu?”
Published 2017-09-01“…The top reported reasons for using the IR were downloading work and arranging for the deposit of student work, while skepticism and misconceptions about its benefits prevent others from interacting with the IR. …”
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Investigating the Elements of Identity and the Process of Learners’ Identification in the Fundamental Reform Document of Education: A Qualitative Study
Published 2021-02-01“…Due to the idea of Islamization of humanistic sciences after the Islamic revolution in Iran, the concept of identity found new dimensions in the eyes of revolutionary policymakers and a sense of skepticism gradually grew regarding the impact of common educational policies on shaping learners’ identity. …”
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