Skepticism in the modern age
Subtitle: building on the work of Richard Popkin
By: edited by José R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini, John Christian Laursen.
Contributors: Maia Neto, José Raimundo, 1959-; Paganini, Gianni, 1950-; Laursen, John Christian.
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history -- v. 181; Brill's studies in intellectual history -- v. 181.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9789004177840
Subjects: Skepticism -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / José R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini, and John Christian Laursen; title: Richard Popkin and his history of scepticism / Jeremy D. Popkin; title: Part one: Montaigne and his skeptical background. The anthropological argument : the rediscovery of ancient skepticism in modern thought / Danilo Marcondes; title: The current debate about Montaigne's skepticism / Vicente Raga Rosaleny; title: On skeptical fideism in Montaigne's Apology for Raymond Sebond / Sérgio Cardoso; title: Montaigne's radical skepticism / Luiz Eva; title: Part two: Early modern thinkers close to skepticism. Skeptical aspects of Francesco Guicciardini's thought / Newton Bignotto; title: Probability, certainty and facts in Francis Bacon's natural histories : a double attitude towards skepticism / Silvia Manzo; title: Skepticism and cynicism in the work of Pedro de Valencia / John Christian Laursen; title: Periegesis and skepticism : La Peyrère, geographer / Frédéric Gabriel; title: Skepticism, belief, and justification / Plínio Junqueira Smith; title: Part three: Skepticism and politics. Absolutism and despotism in Samuel Sorbière : notes on skepticism and politics / Lorenzo Bianchi; title: Montaigne's and Bayle's variations : the philosophical form of skepticism in politics / Renato Lessa; title: 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; title: Descartes and Renaissance skepticism : the Sanches case / Gianni Paganini; title: 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; title: Part five: Skepticism in early Cartesianism. Early German reactions to Huet's Censura / Jean-Robert Armogathe; title: Acquired skepticism in the seventeenth century / José R. Maia Neto; title: Skepticism and solipsism in the eighteenth century : returning to the egoist question / Sébastien Charles; title: Part six: Hume. Skepticism and religious belief in A treatise of human nature / Lívia Guimarães; title: Criticism and science in Hume / Frédéric Brahami.