Skepticism in the modern age : building on the work of Richard Popkin / / edited by Jose R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini, John Christian Laursen.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 181
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Maia Neto, Jose Raimundo, 1959-; Paganini, Gianni, 1950-; Laursen, John Christian.; ProQuest (Firm); Skepticism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment : a conference in memory of Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005) (2007 : Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 181.
• Physical Description: vii, 389 p.
• Notes: Proceedings of a conference titled "Skepticism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment : a conference in memory of Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005)", held at Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Oct. 22-25, 2007.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Jose 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 / Sergio 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 Peyrere, geographer / Frederic Gabriel -- Skepticism, belief, and justification / Plinio Junqueira Smith -- Part three: Skepticism and politics. Absolutism and despotism in Samuel Sorbiere : 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 Rene 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 la, de nous amener a la verite par l'exces de la verite, c'est-a-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 / Jose R. Maia Neto -- Skepticism and solipsism in the eighteenth century : returning to the egoist question / Sebastien Charles -- Part six: Hume. Skepticism and religious belief in A treatise of human nature / Livia Guimaraes -- Criticism and science in Hume / Frederic Brahami.