10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROBABILISM»
Discover the use of
probabilism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
probabilism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Defending
Probabilism: The Moral Theology of Juan Caramuel
As the only full-length English study of Caramuel's theological method, Defending Probabilism seeks to reappraise Caramuel's legacy, claiming that his model of moral thinking, if better understood, can actually be of help to the Church ...
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Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity
PROBABILISM. AND. THE. SCEPTICAL. CRISIS. The late sixteenth and the early
seventeenth centuries were the heyday of scholastic probabilism. It was also the
golden era of early modern scepticism. Sextus Empiricus's work was translated ...
Jill Kraye, Risto Saarinen, 2006
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The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early ...
First published in 1975, this edition includes an introduction that contextualizes his book in light of developing philosophical trends. Ian Hacking is the winner of the Holberg International Memorial Prize 2009.
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The Origins of Moral Theology in the United States: Three ...
The acceptance of probabilism brings about a somewhat subtle shift in moral
understanding. The purpose of the moral judgment is not to attain the moral truth
but to achieve the security of knowing that one is not acting wrongly. Probabilism
...
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Saint Cicero and the Jesuits: The Influence of the Liberal ...
By integrating concepts of theology and classical humanism, this book offers a compelling account of how diverse forces could act upon a religious order to alter the central beliefs they held and promulgated.
Dr Robert Aleksander Maryks, 2013
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The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology
major development came out of this narrowed focus in the form of a moral system
for dealing with ethical doubt called Probabilism. The long debate over the moral
systems was, at root, concerned with the legitimacy of pluralism in matters ...
Alan Richardson, John Bowden, 1983
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Decision Theory as Philosophy
But it will not in general be so obvious how you should modify your state of
opinion in the light of an argument (couched in terms of a proof using the
Kolmogorov axioms) that demonstrates a violation of Modest Probabilism. If you
invest more ...
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Soul of the Embryo: Christianity and the Human Embryo
236, quoted in Tauer 1981, p. 29). In assessing Tauer's argument it is necessary
to address two questions: Is probabilism a reasonable basis for making ethical
decisions? And would probabilism in its classical form support the conclusion
that ...
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The Catholic Moral Tradition Today: A Synthesis
off by the extremes, tensions soon came to the fore, and the ensuing probabilism
controversy had a great influence on the continuing development of the manuals.
The probabilism question concerns how to move from practical doubt about the ...
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A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems: The Reach of ...
We briefly characterized explanationism and probabilism in the previous section.
As we say, they are not natural rivals. There are ways of being an explanationist
which involves no resistance to probabilistic methods, and there are ways of ...
Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods, 2005
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROBABILISM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
probabilism is used in the context of the following news items.
Chicago's Unserious Event
His talk consisted of a defense of probabilism, a cavalier treatment of what was always a difficult moral theory, one that corresponds to a basic ... «National Catholic Reporter, Jul 15»
Southern Cultural Pride
... book SAINT CICERO AND THE JESUITS: THE INFLUENCE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS ON THE ADOPTION OF MORAL PROBABILISM (2008). «OpEdNews, Jun 15»
Profiling Pope Francis as a Jesuit
No doubt the Jesuit use of Probabilism as confessors also contributed to their detractors' use of the term Jesuitical in a pejorative sense. «OpEdNews, Jan 15»
Comfort & Consolation
Maryks attributed the birth of probabilism in Jesuit theology to the order's acquaintance with Cicero as they began running schools. And, St. «National Catholic Reporter, Dec 14»
Saint Cicero & the Jesuits, Part II
Probabilism, although first articulated by a Salamancan Dominican, Bartolome de Medina in 1577, combined with the Jesuit belief that ... «National Catholic Reporter, Oct 14»
Understanding Francis: Saint Cicero and the Jesuits
Saint Cicero and the Jesuits: The Influence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral Probabilism, by Robert Aleksander Maryks, looks at the ... «National Catholic Reporter, Oct 14»
Pope Francis Signals Eased Moral Strictures
The pope's decision here did not change Catholic policy; it simply retrieved a Catholic policy called Probabilism, which was developed largely ... «Consortium News, Apr 14»
MIT Team Wins Turing Award
... in which interaction (the ability of provers and verifiers to send each other messages) and probabilism (in this case, using the result of several ... «MIT Technology Review, Apr 13»
Goldwasser and Micali win Turing Award
... in which interaction (the ability of provers and verifiers to send each other messages back and forth) and probabilism (the ability to toss coins ... «MIT News, Mar 13»
FiveThirtyEight | The Problems With Forecasting and How to Get …
In her papers, she inveighs against probabilism and inductivism, qualities that seem to be associated with better (or at least “less bad”) ... «New York Times, Jun 12»
