Constitutional Skepticism: A Recovery and Preliminary Evaluation

Some Skepticism About Normative Constitutional Advice

designing and validating a textbook evaluation questionnaire for reading comprehension ii and exploring its relationship with achievement

در هر برنامه آموزشی، مهم ترین فاکتور موثر بر موفقیت دانش آموزان کتاب درسی است (مک دونو و شاو 2003). در حقیقت ، کتاب قلب آموزش زبان انگلیسی است( شلدن 1988). به دلیل اهمیت والای کتاب به عنوان عنصر ضروری کلاس های آموزش زبان ، کتب باید به دقت ارزیابی و انتخاب شده تا از هرگونه تاثیر منفی بر دانش آموزان جلوگیری شود( لیتز). این تحقیق با طراحی پرسش نامه ارزیابی کتاب که فرصت ارزیابی معتبر را به اساتید د...

Skepticism and Naturalism : Can Philosophical Skepticism be Scientifically Tested ?

It may be possible to scientifically test philosophical skepticism; at least this is what I shall maintain. The argument develops the naturalistic insight that there may be no particular reason to suppose that nature has selected Homo sapiens’ epistemic capacities such that we are ideally suited to forming a true theory of everything, or indeed, a true theory of much of anything. Just as chimpa...

Mysterianism and Skepticism

The article discusses the proposals for replying to the skeptical challenge developed by the socalled Neo-mysterians, and more particularly by the most eloquent of them, Colin McGinn. McGinn’s version of mysterianism, which he labels “Transcendental Naturalism,” is a very candid and rigorous form of scientific naturalism since (contrary to the standard naturalistic views) it is prepared to conc...

Skepticism and floating conclusions

The purpose of this paper is to question some commonly accepted patterns of reasoning involving nonmonotonic logics that generate multiple extensions. In particular, I argue that the phenomenon of floating conclusions indicates a problem with the view that the skeptical consequences of such theories should be identified with the statements that are supported by each of their various extensions....