Many topics that scientists investigate speak to people's ideological worldviews. We report three studies-including an analysis of large-scale survey data-in which we systematically investigate the ideological antecedents of general faith in science and willingness to support science, as well as of science skepticism of climate change, vaccination, and genetic modification (GM). The main predic...

Philosophical skepticism, according to numerous influential accounts of it, is bound up with our failure or inability adopt an “absolute” standpoint. Similarly, many religions speak that also beyond human reach. With this similarity in mind, I will develop what take be a religious dimension skepticism. First, discuss the connection Stanley Cavell draws between his reading skepticism and notions...

Abstract I stipulate and motivate the overlooked problem of demarcating radical skeptics (perceptual moral) from mentally disordered persons, given that both deny they know ordinary Moorean propositions (e.g., have hands or killing for fun is morally wrong). Call this ‘the demarcation problem’. In response to problem, develop a novel way demarcate between persons in an extensionally adequate sa...