Essays on Skepticism

The main topic according to this lecture discussion is skeptic that is referred to as a person who does not agree with beliefs but uses reasoning and a compelling evidence to draw conclusion on knowledge and claims. It is different from cynical, therefore, people should...

Believe it or not, it does not matter but the (sometimes) eerily accurate future or past evaluations leave a lot of people sceptical. Why? Because some feel that it is a calling from above, a higher power, a guardian angel or a deity sending them...

René Descartes was a famous philosopher from France from the 17th century, he is even considered to be the father of modern philosophy. Aside from becoming a philosopher, he was a mathematician, a scientist, an even a metaphysician. Descartes was born on March 31, 1596,...

Skepticism is something that individuals experience consistently. This quality is something that any given individual could encounter once a day. One way we truly express our skepticism is our contact with other people. When hearing a story, we listen carefully and figure out for ourselves...

Skepticism is generically interrogating mental altitude or uncertainty towards one or more particulars of putative know-how or notion or dogma. It is frequently addressed in areas such as supernatural, ethical motive, religious belief or knowledge. Formally is used to look like a linguistic context of...

Skepticism, basically, is to remove disturbances that result from confronting incompatible views of the world. As one begins to ponder philosophy’s and perspectives, one finds that for each account that purports to establish something true about the world there is another equally persuasive force that...

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts to a family full of Puritan ancestry even including a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials. His books and stories drew heavily from this Puritan history. Hawthorne expresses skepticism about the Puritans in his stories by showing the...

Feminism, as a basis, is the advocacy of having equality of the sexes. It ranges from political movements to different ideologies in order to achieve equality in all of the different aspects. This includes fighting gender stereotypes and seeking to establish educational and professional opportunities...

The Matrix gave people a new version of this age-old simulation theory. What if, instead of us being virtual humans in virtual reality, we’re instead real humans living in virtual reality. With VR technology reaching new heights towards the late nineties, people started to see...