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Against Pyrrhonian Equipollence, John Everett Button Dec 2008

Against Pyrrhonian Equipollence, John Everett Button

Philosophy Theses

The production of equipollence is the most important part of the Pyrrhonian skeptic’s method for bringing about the suspension of judgment. The skeptic produces equipollence methodically, by opposing arguments, propositions, or appearances, in anyway whatsoever, until he produces an equality of “weightiness” on both sides of the conflicting views. Having no appropriate criterion to break the deadlock of equipollence, the skeptic (or his interlocutor) is left with no reason to accept either view. I have two main aims in this paper. My first aim is to distinguish between two different types of equipollence; that produced in the Pyrrhonist, called Psychological …


Free-Will And Determinism: A Debate In Sociology, Jorge Gibert-Galassi Mar 2008

Free-Will And Determinism: A Debate In Sociology, Jorge Gibert-Galassi

jorge gibert-galassi

No abstract provided.


Consolidating The Gains Made In Diplomacy Studies: A Taxonomy, Stuart Murray Jan 2008

Consolidating The Gains Made In Diplomacy Studies: A Taxonomy, Stuart Murray

Stuart Murray

Since the end of the Cold War, the scope and study of diplomacy has expanded. In the modern diplomatic environment, novel terms such as pipeline diplomacy, coercive diplomacy, diplomacy by sanction and citizen diplomacy are common, alongside the more traditional view of diplomacy as state-to-state activity, monopolized by professional, official diplomats. With such a broad range of views, the scholar can become confused as to what actually constitutes modern diplomacy? In this article, it is argued that the disparity of views in the diplomacy studies field must be classified and consolidated before the enhanced role of diplomacy in the twenty-first …


Colonised Epistemologies, Ashok Agrwaal Jan 2008

Colonised Epistemologies, Ashok Agrwaal

Ashok Agrwaal

A polemical piece


Modalidades Explicativas Y Teoría Sociológica, Jorge Gibert-Galassi Dec 2007

Modalidades Explicativas Y Teoría Sociológica, Jorge Gibert-Galassi

jorge gibert-galassi

No abstract provided.