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Record W1529098012 · doi:10.1353/hms.2002.a385867

Science and Skepticism

2002· article· en· W1529098012 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueHume studies · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEvolution and Science Education
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSkepticismEpistemologyStatement (logic)PhilosophyFace (sociological concept)PassionNatural (archaeology)Prejudice (legal term)PsychologySocial psychologyHistory

Abstract

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Very little scholarly attention has been devoted to Part 1 of Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.1 This lack has been addressed recently by Tweyman, who argues for the importance of this part in understanding the positions defended by the characters in the remainder of the dialogue,2 in accordance with the types that Hume discusses in part 12 of the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding3—Cleanthes is philosophical dogmatist who requires the application of excessive skepticism by Philo to turn to the approved position of mitigated skepticism, while Demea is and remains religious dogmatist. In the present paper I will address the question of why the Dialogues continues beyond Part 1 in the face of the statement by Philo, who is generally considered to be Hume's spokesperson in the dialogue, that the inquiry being undertaken—the investigation into the nature of the Deity—is beyond human reason. According to Philo, human reason ought not to conduct inquiries into subjects such as theology, whose objects of study are too great for, or beyond, human experience. It would seem, then, that if Philo's position is the acceptable one, the dialogue should not take place at all—determining the nature of the Deity is just not an appropriate exercise for human reason. According to Cleanthes, however, there is parallel between theological inquiries and those of other, accepted sciences where evidence is presented and appropriate conclusions drawn in proportion to that evidence. Rejecting an equality between sciences is a plain proof of prejudice and passion, as there is no rational basis for that rejection.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.834
Threshold uncertainty score0.744

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.251
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.065 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it