Skepticism in the modern age : building on the work of Richard Popkin
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Skepticism in the modern age : building on the work of Richard Popkin
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 181）
Brill, 2009
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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
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 some of the main thinkers and issues related to the reappraisal of ancient skepticism in the modern age. Special attention is given to the nature, importance, and relation to religion of Montaigne's and Hume's skepticisms; to the various skeptical and non-skeptical sources of Cartesian doubt; to the skeptical and anti-skeptical impact of Cartesianism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and to philosophers who dealt with skeptical issues in the development of their own various intellectual interests.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Jose R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini, and John Christian Laursen
Richard Popkin and his History of Scepticism, Jeremy Popkin
1. 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 Alves Eva
2. EARLY MODERN THINKERS CLOSE TO SKEPTICISM
Skeptical aspects of Francesco Guicciardini's thought, Newton Bignotto de Souza
Probability, certainty and facts in Francis Bacon's natural histories, 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
3. 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
4. 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 case of Sanches, 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
5. 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
6. HUME
Skepticism and religious belief in A Treatise of Human Nature, Livia Guimaraes
Criticism and science in Hume, Frederic Brahami
Index of Names
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