Scepticism about technological determinism emerged alongside increased pessimism about techno-science in the mid-20th century, in particular around the use of nuclear energy in the production of nuclear weapons, Nazi human experimentation during World War II, and the problems of economic development in the third world.

Scepticism about the genuineness of marvels

Scepticism is highest in Latvia, the United Kingdom, and Hungary, with only 25 %– 32 % viewing membership as a good thing.

George S. Pappas is known to be a leading Berkeley scholar ; his essay “ Berkeley and Scepticism ” was in 1993 awarded the International Berkeley Prize.

An important element in the Neoplatonic answer to these questions is its reaction to Scepticism.

* In Scepticism Inc., a novel by Bo Fowler, red mercury is described as " mercury antimony oxide dissolved into mercury and then left to irradiate in a nuclear reactor for twenty days ".

A bomb made of red mercury is used to destroy the Sceptic Tower, headquarters of the metaphysical betting company Scepticism Inc.

But in his essay " Skepsis und Mystik " ( Scepticism and Mysticism ) published in 1903 there is a turn in Landauer's thinking towards mysticism.

* Scepticism and the Definition of Knowledge ( Garland, 1990 ) is Gilbert Harman's doctoral dissertation which was submitted to Harvard University in 1964

Among other objections to Scepticism, was the consideration that without firm convictions no rational content of life is possible.

Grayling is the author of around 30 books on philosophy, including The Refutation of Scepticism ( 1985 ), The Future of Moral Values ( 1997 ), The Meaning of Things ( 2001 ), and The Good Book ( 2011 ).

* A. C. Grayling-Wittgenstein on Scepticism and Certainty

* Perin, Casey, The Demands of Reason: An Essay on Pyrrhonian Scepticism.

Santayana's main philosophical work consists of The Sense of Beauty ( 1896 ), his first book-length monograph and perhaps the first major work on aesthetics written in the United States ; The Life of Reason five volumes, 1905 – 6, the high point of his Harvard career ; Scepticism and Animal Faith ( 1923 ); and The Realms of Being ( 4 vols., 1927 – 40 ).

He was an ordained priest of the Church of England who preached regularly while living in Greenwich, and his works include the annual address for 1875 to the Philosophical Society at the Victoria Institute ( entitled Modern Philosophic Scepticism Examined ) and a sermon on I Corinthians 1: 22-24 given to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in the same year.

His 1960 work The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes introduced previously unrecognised influence on Western thought in the seventeenth century, the Pyrrhonian Scepticism of Sextus Empiricus.

He went on to obtain an MA from Sussex, then attended Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was taught by P. F. Strawson and A. J. Ayer, obtaining his doctorate in 1981 for a thesis on " Epistemological Scepticism and Transcendental Arguments.

* Doomen, Jasper, " The Problems of Scepticism " Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 10 ( 2007 ): 36-52.

* S. Rappe: Scepticism in the sixth century?

* Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Scepticism.

Scepticism and Animal Faith: Introduction to a System of Philosophy.

* “ Intentionality and Interiority in Wittgenstein ”, in Klaus Puhl, ed., Meaning Scepticism ( De Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 1991 ), pp. 148 – 69

* Scepticism towards most American foreign policy.

George Santayana, in his Scepticism and Animal Faith, attempted to show that the reality of change cannot be proven.

Scepticism was initially expressed by Germany's influential Free Workers ' Union of Germany ( FAUD ) towards the Bolsheviks ' concept of an international of trade unions, known as the Profintern.

* Cohen, S. ( 1990 ) " Intellectual Scepticism and Political Commitment: The Case of Radical Criminology ," Institute of Criminology, University of Amsterdam.

This was never really the case for Epicureanism, which was almost always caricatured and considered with suspicion, but Scepticism and Pyrrhonism did make a comeback thanks to writers like Michel Montaigne, and the movement of Stoicism made an impressive re-appearance in the writings of Justus Lipsius.

" Contextualist Solutions to Epistemological Problems: Scepticism, Gettier, and the Lottery.

" Contextualist Solutions to Scepticism ", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 96: 317-33.

In a magazine essay entitled ' Religious Faith and Modern Scepticism ', she saw spiritual problems as " the beginning of a wider and deeper insight-a larger faith and increased knowledge.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

In fact, the recent warnings about the use of X-rays have introduced fears and ambiguities of action which now require more detailed understanding, and thus in this instance, science has momentarily aggravated our fears.

After casting about for a way of describing this spirit, we decided that it would be better to use Mr. Lyford's introduction as an illustration.

Frank had been given about half his legacy to use in a business venture before Papa's death ; ;

`` Now, if I can just figure out what he's talking about, I'll use it ''.

I use the phrase advisedly because there was something positively indecent about our relationship.

This use is expected to increase to about 50 million visits by 1972.

It is estimated that about 542,250 miles of forest development roads, and 80,000 miles of trails, constitute the system that will eventually be needed to obtain the maximum practicable yield and use of the wood, water, forage, and wildlife and recreation resources of the National Forests on a continuing basis.

The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.

Continuing technical problems involved in the use of this fuel, coupled with significant improvements in aircraft range through other means, have now raised serious questions about the value of the high-energy fuel program.

This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.

Providing these means are about ninety companies which manufactured the estimated 1,800,000 boat trailers now in use.

Battery life limited the use of this `` pill '' to about 8 to 30 hours maximum.

It has recently become practical to use the radio emission of the moon and planets as a new source of information about these bodies and their atmospheres.

they exhibit a keen interest in social, political, and economic problems, but they frequently have vague and incorrect notions about the terms they use rather glibly in their routine school work.

These records, when systematically maintained, provide much information about the children, which the teacher can use in guidance, instruction, grouping, and reporting to parents.

At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.

But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.

The Board of County Commissioners, the Sanitary Commission, the Planning and Zoning Board and other county official bodies use recording machines for all public business in order to prevent law suits and other misunderstandings about what actually happened at their meetings.

Common use involves rinsing the mouth with about 20ml ( 2 / 3 fl oz ) of mouthwash two times a day after brushing.

Being very difficult to measure, only about 60 stellar parallaxes had been obtained by the end of the 19th century, mostly by use of the filar micrometer.

Thus for example Heraclitus ' The Allegorist ' quoted fr. 326 and part of fr. 6, about ships in a storm, in his study on Homer's use of allegory.

A 1998 systematic review of studies assessing its prevalence in 13 countries concluded that about 31 % of cancer patients use some form of complementary and alternative medicine .< ref name = Ernst_Cassileth > Alternative medicine varies from country to country.

Fleming cautioned about the use of penicillin in his many speeches around the world.