Skepticism in the modern age building on the work of Richard Popkin /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history,
v. 181 |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10439135 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Josβe R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini, and John Christian Laursen
- Richard Popkin and his history of scepticism / Jeremy D. Popkin
- Part one: Montaigne and his skeptical background. The anthropological argument : the rediscovery of ancient skepticism in modern thought / Danilo Marcondes
- The current debate about Montaigne's skepticism / Vicente Raga Rosaleny
- On skeptical fideism in Montaigne's Apology for Raymond Sebond / Sβergio Cardoso
- Montaigne's radical skepticism / Luiz Eva
- Part two: Early modern thinkers close to skepticism. Skeptical aspects of Francesco Guicciardini's thought / Newton Bignotto
- Probability, certainty and facts in Francis Bacon's natural histories : a double attitude towards skepticism / Silvia Manzo
- Skepticism and cynicism in the work of Pedro de Valencia / John Christian Laursen
- Periegesis and skepticism : La Peyrαere, geographer / Frβedβeric Gabriel
- Skepticism, belief, and justification / Plβinio Junqueira Smith
- Part three: Skepticism and politics. Absolutism and despotism in Samuel Sorbiαere : notes on skepticism and politics / Lorenzo Bianchi
- Montaigne's and Bayle's variations : the philosophical form of skepticism in politics / Renato Lessa
- Part four: Sources of Cartesian doubt. Aristotle's perplexity becomes Descartes's doubt : Metaphysics 3, 1 and methodical doubt in Benito Pereira and Renβe Descartes / Constance Blackwell
- Descartes and Renaissance skepticism : the Sanches case / Gianni Paganini
- The hyperbolic way to the truth from Balzac to Descartes : "toute hyperbole tend lαa, de nous amener αa la vβeritβe par l'excαes de la vβeritβe, c'est-αa-dire par la mensonge" / Giulia Belgioioso
- Part five: Skepticism in early Cartesianism. Early German reactions to Huet's Censura / Jean-Robert Armogathe
- Acquired skepticism in the seventeenth century / Josβe R. Maia Neto
- Skepticism and solipsism in the eighteenth century : returning to the egoist question / Sβebastien Charles
- Part six: Hume. Skepticism and religious belief in A treatise of human nature / Lβivia Guimarδaes
- Criticism and science in Hume / Frβedβeric Brahami.