édouard Drouyn de Lhuys
Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys , 1805-81, French diplomat. He served under the July Monarchy. After the Revolution of 1848, he was president of the committee of foreign affairs, ambassador to London, and three times minister of foreign affairs (1851, 1852-55, 1862-66). He had much to do with the role of Emperor Napoleon III in the Crimean War and the Austro-Prussian War.
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SKEPTICISM AND THE ORDINARY From Burnt Norton To Las Vegas
Magazine article from: Visible Language; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...engagement with the implications of philosophical skepticism. Drawing on the philosopher Stanley Cavell's work on skepticism and the ordinary, I take up the classical questions of skepticism and bring them to bear directly on questions of...
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The New Skepticism.
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...In this wide-ranging book, The New Skepticism, Paul Kurtz does all of these things...scientific method--referred to as "skepticism as inquiry"--in all areas of human...improvement. Parts 1 and 2 of The New Skepticism set skepticism as inquiry in historical...
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Skepticism and the management accountant: insights for fraud detection: a survey examines the level of professional skepticism among management accountants. With increased emphasis being placed on detecting and preventing fraud, companies may benefit from enhancing the abilities of their employees to exhibit skepticism.
Magazine article from: Management Accounting Quarterly; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Webster's Dictionary defines skepticism as "an attitude of doubt or a...In the accounting profession, skepticism has long been recognized as a fundamental...auditors must use professional skepticism when engaged in an audit. Skepticism...
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Forster, Michael N.: Kant and Skepticism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; FORSTER, Michael N. Kant and Skepticism. Princeton: Princeton University...exclusively with the problem of skepticism. Michael Forster has provided...useful examination of the role that skepticism played in the development of Kant...
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Groundless Knowledge: A Humean Solution to the Problem of Skepticism.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...A Humean Solution to the Problem of Skepticism. Stockholm Studies in Philosophy...important contribution to the literature on skepticism by carefully articulating an account...attribute to Hume what he calls a "moderate skepticism." In advancing his claims, Bohlin...
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Epistemological skepticism(s) and rational self-control *.
Magazine article from: The Monist; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...for any form of epistemological skepticism, which despite its cogency and...1) the challenge posed by skepticism is even deeper and more radical...commonly supposed: If any form of skepticism proves unanswerable and yet unbelievable...
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COMMENTARY: PHILOSOPHY, SKEPTICISM AND REALITY
News Wire article from: United Press International; 1/29/2001; 700+ words
; ...29-2001 Commentary: Philosophy, skepticism and reality CAMBRIDGE, England, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The history of skepticism is sometimes said to be the history of philosophy itself. For skepticism, or intellectual doubt, began with the...
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Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Zalloua. Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville...of Montaigne criticism, ethics and skepticism, so as to define an ethical doctrine...seems to be missing from The Ethics of Skepticism is the skepticism. The author appears...
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Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; David L. Sedley. Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton. Ann Arbor...to the two concepts of sublimity and skepticism have kept them rigidly compartmentalized...of the twin concepts of sublimity and skepticism, arguing that they simultaneously developed...
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Early Modern Skepticism and the Origins of Toleration.(Review)
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Early Modern Skepticism and the Origins of Toleration. Edited...philosophy of the early modern period, skepticism. I am less convinced than Levine...fruitfully be joined. But too often skepticism is highlighted to the detriment of...
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Skepticism: Academic and Pyrrhonian
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
SKEPTICISM: ACADEMIC AND PYRRHONIAN SKEPTICISM: ACADEMIC AND PYRRHONIAN. Skepticism dogged claimants to knowledge and truth throughout early modern Europe. In its most general sense it refers to uncertainty, doubt, disbelief, suspension of...
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skepticism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
skepticism [Gr.,=to reflect], philosophic...denote any questioning attitude. Extreme skepticism holds that no knowledge is possible...Pyrrho , regarded as the father of skepticism, later held a similarly extreme position...
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Skepticism
Book article from: American Eras
Skepticism Ingersoll. As modern scientific thought...American history. Before 1878 religious skepticism made little impact on American life...impeccable and conventional form. Religious skepticism was also increasingly common among the...
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David Hume
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1711-1776) developed a philosophy of "mitigated skepticism," which remains a viable alternative to the systems...it to Posterity to add the rest." "Mitigated Skepticism" Skepticism is concerned with the truthfulness of human perceptions...
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Carneades
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...philosopher of the third school of academic skepticism. His combination of skepticism and empiricism can now be seen to have remarkable...demonstrated with great effect the logic of skepticism by delivering two contradictory orations on...
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