Daring to doubt! Shaftesbury, doubt, and polite conversation.

Shaftesbury thought that dogmatism was an epistemic vice that violated the norms of good inquiry by inhibiting the proper exercise of reason. One way that Shaftesbury attempted to defend against dogmatic thought and culture was to recommend that society followed the norms of what he called "polite c...

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Published in:	Southern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 192 - 211
Main Author:	Maroney, Sean
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Jun2025
Subjects:	Dogmatism Inquiry (Theory of knowledge) Linguistic politeness Virtue epistemology Suspicion Philosophers Social norms Discourse
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