The return of scepticism : from Hobbes and Descartes to Bayle : proceedings of the Vercelli Conference, May 18th-20th, 2000

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The return of scepticism : from Hobbes and Descartes to Bayle : proceedings of the Vercelli Conference, May 18th-20th, 2000

edited by Gianni Paganini

(Archives internationales d'histoire des idées = International archives of the history of ideas, 184)

Kluwer Academic, c2003

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This collection of articles (the Vercelli conference proceedings) places the theme of scepticism within its philosophical tradition. It explores the English philosophical thinkers, the French context, as well as major Italian figures and Spanish culture. It pays special attention to the relationships between history of philosophical ideas and the problems rising from the history of sciences (medicine, physics, linguistics, historical scholarship) in the 17th and the18th centuries.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • G. Paganini. For a revised history of scepticism
  • R.H. Popkin. 1: The English Context: From Hobbes to Locke. Hobbes among ancient and modern sceptics: phenomena and bodies
  • G. Paganini. John Locke and the sceptics
  • G.A.J. Rogers. Conjecture, conceivability, existence between Henry More and Ralph Cudworth
  • F. Tomasoni. 2: Descartes and His Context. Charron's epoche and Descartes' cogito: the sceptical base of Descartes refutation of scepticism
  • J.R. Maia Neto. Scepticisme, tromperie et mensonge chez La Mothe Le Vayer et Descartes
  • J.-P. Cavaille. 3: Post-Cartesian Ramifications. Against Descartes: Marten Schoock's De Scepticismo
  • A. Del Prete. Huet, Malebranche and the birth of skepticism
  • T.M. Lennon. Arnauld's posthumous defense of the philosophie humaine against heretics and sceptics
  • G. Belgioioso. Foucher and the dilemmas of representation: a modern problem? E. Scribano. Scepticism and analysis: Villemandy as a critic of Descartes
  • C. Borghero. Sceptical readings of Cartesian evidence in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy
  • M.T. Marcialis. 4: Politics and Religion. Scepticism at Port Royal: the perversion of Pyrrhonian doubt
  • A. McKenna. Sorbiere's scepticism: between naturalism and absolutism
  • L. Bianchi. Scepticism and the theory of toleration: human fallibility and `adiaphora'
  • L. Simonutti. 5: Scepticism and Sciences. Medicine and skepticism: Martin Martinez (1684-1734)
  • J.C. Laursen. From Galileo to Vico. The uncertainty and arrogance of knowledge
  • M. Torrini. Scepticism and semantic theory: from Locke to Du Marsais
  • G. Hassler. Le vertige dupyrrhonisme: Hardouin face a l'histoire
  • C. Grell. 6: Bayle's Age. Theories sceptiques de la politique: Montaigne et Bayle
  • F. Brahami. Pierre Bayle on scepticism and common notions
  • G. Mori. Religious truth and freedom of conscience in Noodt and Barbeyrac: the confrontation with Bayle
  • F. Lomonaco. 7: After Bayle: Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism. De la controverse anti-romaine a la theologie naturelle: parcours anti-sceptiques de Jean-Alphonse Turrettini
  • M.-C. Pitassi. Formey et Crousaz, ou comment fallait-il combattre le scepticisme? J. Haseler. Jean Meslier, le doute methodique et le materialisme
  • M. Benitez. Index.

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  • NCID
    BA63021756
  • ISBN
    • 1402013779
  • LCCN
    2003048943
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    engfre
  • Place of Publication
    Dordrecht
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxviii, 486 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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