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Surveying the use of skepticism in works by Hobbes, Descartes, Hume, Smith, and Kant, among others, these essays demonstrate the pervasive impact of skepticism on the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe.

Skepticism --- Skeptics (Greek philosophy) --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Scepticism --- Unbelief --- Agnosticism --- Belief and doubt --- Free thought --- Political aspects --- History --- Sextus, --- Sekst, --- Sesto, --- Sexto, --- Sextos, --- Sekstus,

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For at least the past two decades, there has been intense interest in understanding how epistemic status is related to pragmatic concerns. In this sophisticated study of sophistication, Griesmaier embeds this now widely discussed question in a larger set of issues about the way in which our standards of epistemic rationality vary with the sophistication of the epistemic agent. The volume thereby casts new light on an old issue. This is an unusually useful and original book.

Knowledge, Theory of. --- Belief and doubt. --- Conviction --- Doubt --- Consciousness --- Credulity --- Emotions --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Religion --- Will --- Agnosticism --- Rationalism --- Skepticism --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge

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"This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt, calling into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic law today, which is that Islamic law is a divine legal tradition that has little room for discretion or doubt, particularly in Islamic criminal law. Despite its contemporary popularity, that notion turns out to have been far outside the mainstream of Islamic law for most of its history. Instead of rejecting doubt, medieval Muslim scholars largely embraced it. In fact, they used doubt to enlarge their own power and to construct Islamic criminal law itself. Through examination of legal, historical, and theological sources, and a range of illustrative case studies, this book shows that Muslim jurists developed a highly sophisticated and regulated system for dealing with Islam's unique concept of doubt, which evolved from the seventh to the sixteenth century"-- "This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt"--

Criminal law (Islamic law) --- Belief and doubt --- Legal certainty --- Legal maxims (Islamic law) --- Islamic law --- Interpretation and construction --- History --- Belief and doubt. --- Legal certainty. --- HISTORY --- Islam. --- Strafrecht. --- Rechtsgrundsatz. --- Auslegung. --- Interpretation and construction. --- History. --- General. --- Criminal law (Islamic law) - Interpretation and construction --- Legal maxims (Islamic law) - History --- Islamic law - Interpretation and construction --- Uṣūl al-fiqh (Islamic law) --- Certainty of law --- Jurisprudence --- Law --- Conviction --- Doubt --- Consciousness --- Credulity --- Emotions --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Religion --- Will --- Agnosticism --- Rationalism --- Skepticism --- Uṣūl al-Fiqh

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Kristina Yankova addresses the question of what role professional skepticism plays in the context of cognitive biases (the so-called information order effects) in auditor judgment. Professional skepticism is a fundamental concept in auditing. Despite its immense importance to audit practice and the voluminous literature on this issue, professional skepticism is a topic which still involves more questions than answers. The work provides important theoretical and empirical insights into the behavioral implications of professional skepticism in auditing.  Contents Belief Revision and Information Order Effects Professional Skepticism Empirical Analysis  Target Groups Researchers and students in the fields of accounting and auditing Practitioners in these areas  The Author Dr. Kristina Yankova completed her doctoral studies under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Annette Köhler at the Chair of Accounting and Auditing at the Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen.

Economics/Management Science. --- Accounting/Auditing. --- Economics. --- Auditing. --- Economie politique --- Vérification comptable --- Auditors -- Psychology. --- Behaviorism (Psychology). --- Psychology. --- Skepticism. --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- Accounting --- Auditing, Analytical review. --- Auditing --- Behaviorism (Psychology) --- Human information processing. --- Decision making. --- Scepticism --- Unbelief --- Information processing, Human --- Behavioralism (Psychology) --- Behavioristic psychology --- Behaviouralism (Psychology) --- Behaviourism (Psychology) --- Scientific behaviorism --- Audits --- Financial statements --- Analytical auditing --- Analytical review auditing --- Business. --- Accounting. --- Bookkeeping. --- Business and Management. --- Bionics --- Information theory in psychology --- Perception --- Psychology --- Comfort letters --- Agnosticism --- Belief and doubt --- Free thought --- Accountancy --- Business enterprises --- Commercial accounting --- Finance --- Financial accounting --- Business --- Bookkeeping --- Bookkeeping . --- Double entry bookkeeping --- Business education

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The book is an epistemological monograph written from a multidisciplinary perspective. It provides a complex and realistic picture of cognition and rationality, as endowments aimed at making sense and reacting smartly to one’s environment, be it epistemic, social or simply ecological. The first part of the book analyzes scientific modeling as products of the biological necessity to cope with the environment and be able to draw as many inferences as possible about it. Moreover, it develops an epistemological framework which will be exploited in both the second part of the book, focusing on social cognition and cognitive niche construction, and the third part, dealing with the apparent irrationality of magical and religious belief. The book also discusses how both social networking and online religion influence cognition, rationality and irrational belief.

Philosophy. --- Epistemology. --- Cognitive Psychology. --- Computational Intelligence. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Religious Studies. --- Philosophy (General). --- Genetic epistemology. --- Science --- Evolution (Biology). --- Engineering. --- Religion (General). --- Consciousness. --- Epistémologie génétique --- Sciences --- Evolution (Biologie) --- Ingénierie --- Conscience --- Philosophie --- Science_xPhilosophy. --- Philosophy & Religion --- Speculative Philosophy --- Philosophy --- Rationalism. --- Belief and doubt. --- Religion --- Conviction --- Doubt --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Religion. --- Philosophy and science. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Computational intelligence. --- Cognitive psychology. --- Religious Studies, general. --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cognitive science --- Psychology --- Intelligence, Computational --- Artificial intelligence --- Soft computing --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Science and philosophy --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Consciousness --- Credulity --- Emotions --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Will --- Agnosticism --- Rationalism --- Skepticism --- Belief and doubt --- Deism --- Free thought --- Realism --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Spirit --- Self --- Developmental psychology