Analyzing political conservatism as motivated social cognition integrates theories of personality (authoritarianism, dogmatism-intolerance of ambiguity), epistemic and existential needs (for closure, regulatory focus, terror management), and ideological rationalization (social dominance, system justification). A meta-analysis (88 samples, 12 countries, 22,818 cases) confirms that several psycho...

In a recent paper published in this journal, Hughes (2019) has argued that Machery’s (2017) Dogmatism Argument is self-defeating. reply involves giving the an in...

What justifies our beliefs about what other people say (henceforth, comprehension-based beliefs)? According to epistemic inferentialism​, the justification of depends on beliefs, e.g., words speaker uttered or even sounds they produced. non-inferentialism, ​does not depend beliefs. This paper offers a new defense non-inferentialism. First, I discuss three counterexamples non-inferentialism prov...

Since the seventeenth century, scholars have been accusing each other of ‘dogmatism’. But what exactly did this mean? In exploring question, article focuses on philosophy and Biblical scholarship in nineteenth-century Germany. Scholars both these fields habitually contrasted Dogmatismus with Kritik, to point emplotting history their field as a gradual triumph critical thinking over dogmatic bel...

polyphony is a term applied by bakhtin to describe the features of dostoevsky's poetics. according to bakhtin, polyphony is based on dialogism and to respect to the others 'opinion. in this case, polyphony is an achievement that releases human thought of dogmatism. molavi, prior to bakhtin, emphasized on otherness and avoidance of dogmatism and selfdom. polyphony is a twentieth century idiom a...