Sentences with phrase «skeptical views which»

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Rather than conclude his ethical theory with insoluble problems of skeptical denial, I invoke a richer epistemology from Russell on which to base a constructive view of the virtues.

I am very skeptical of this idea, in part for reasons which it seems to me are closely related to some of Hall's own views.

But the board took a more skeptical view of the Christian Science Reading Room project, which its developers, Peter and Rebecca McCauley, already estimate will generate a nearly 11 percent return on their investment without any tax breaks, and a nearly 28 percent return if the IDA approves the $ 35,000 in incentives they are seeking.

From my point of view, the only limiting factors to the successfulness of the Wii U are the price point, the marketing, and the online features — which we remain skeptical about, as we didn't see any of the Wii U's operating system whilst at their booth.

In the group exhibition «The Projective Drawing» at Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY), curator Brett Littman applies Evans's theory, which is skeptical of drawing at its core, to challenge our understanding of how the medium of drawing operates in contemporary culture by highlighting both Austrian and international artists whose drawings require viewers to activate a matrix of complex and nontraditional ideas in order to interpret the works on view.

In The Projective Drawing, the curator Brett Littman applies Evans's theory, which is skeptical of drawing at its core, to challenge our understanding of how the medium of drawing operates in contemporary culture by highlighting both Austrian and international artists whose drawings require viewers to activate a matrix of complex and nontraditional ideas in order to interpret the works on view.

It would have been great, for example, if Fox had traveled to Woodward, Okla., which one survey found is the most skeptical county in America when it comes to views on global warming, but where the CNN video journalist John Sutter found an oil - company executive pursuing solar - powered independence from the grid.

But the newly obtained documents show that Dr. Carlin's highly skeptical views on global warming, which have been known for more than a decade within the small unit where he works, have been repeatedly challenged by scientists inside and outside the E.P.A.; that he holds a doctorate in economics, not in atmospheric science or climatology; that he has never been assigned to work on climate change; and that his comments on the endangerment finding were a product of rushed and at times shoddy scholarship, as he acknowledged Thursday in an interview.

Far more so than, say, Skeptical Science, which prefers to stick strictly to the science (albeit only if it matches their view of it) and strictly edits any off topic discussion (unless it is by one of their acolytes) and will allow no personal criticisms or adhoms whatsoever (unless delivered against an «unbeliever», and more acceptably delivered by one of the moderators).

It means that it is hard to have confidence that those making such over-confident pronouncements are truly objective about what they are studying, that they are not properly «skeptical» from scientific point of view, always re-examining their assumptions and conclusions which I always believed was the bedrock of good science.

(Skeptical Science) When these politicians are asked about the basis for their positions on climate change, they almost always respond by saying such things as they «have heard that there is a disagreement among scientists» or similar responses that strongly suggest they have informed an opinion on climate change science without any understanding of the depth of the scientific evidence on which the scientific consensus view 0f climate change has been based.