Skepticism in the modern age : building on the work of Richard Popkin / / edited by Jose R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini, John Christian Laursen.
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| Superior document: | Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 181 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 181. |
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| 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. |
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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.