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

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 181
• Author: Skepticism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment : a conference in memory of Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005)
• TeilnehmendeR: Maia Neto, José Raimundo, 1959-; Paganini, Gianni, 1950-; Laursen, John Christian.; 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: 1 online resource (400 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.

Since the publication of the first edition of Richard Popkin’s classic The History of Scepticism in 1960, skepticism has been increasingly recognized as a major force in the development of early modern philosophy. This book provides a review of current scholarship and significant updated research on...

Table of Contents

• Introduction / José 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 / Sérgio 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 Peyrère, geographer / Frédéric Gabriel
• Skepticism, belief, and justification / Plínio Junqueira Smith
• Part three: Skepticism and politics. Absolutism and despotism in Samuel Sorbière : 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 René 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 là, de nous amener à la vérité par l'excès de la vérité, c'est-à-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 / José R. Maia Neto
• Skepticism and solipsism in the eighteenth century : returning to the egoist question / Sébastien Charles
• Part six: Hume. Skepticism and religious belief in A treatise of human nature / Lívia Guimarães
• Criticism and science in Hume / Frédéric Brahami.