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To explore the relationship between philosophical discourse and social issues is to raise a number of highly problematic issues. Each of the three papers in this section suggested ways in which some kind of link might be established. Yet each paper also raised fundamental doubts about the existence of any link between skeptical philosophy and the particular issues under discussion.
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Whaley, J. (1998). Commentary: Skepticism and Social Issues. In: van der Zande, J., Popkin, R.H. (eds) The Skeptical Tradition Around 1800. International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées, vol 155. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3465-3_24
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