Renaissance scepticisms
By: edited by Gianni Paganini and José R. Maia Neto.
Contributors: Paganini, Gianni, 1950-; Maia Neto, José Raimundo, 1959-
Series: International archives of the history of ideas -- 199; Archives internationales d'histoire des idées -- 199.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781402085178; 9781402085185
Subjects: Skepticism -- History -- 16th century; Philosophy, Renaissance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Renaissance Pyrrhonism / Emmanuel Naya; title: Self-knowledge, scepticism and the quest for a new method : Juan Luis Vives on cognition and the impossibility of perfect knowledge / Lorenzo Casini; title: The issue of Reformation scepticism revisited : what Erasmus and Sebastian Castellio did or did not know / Irena Backus; title: Tutius ignorare quam scire : Cornelius Agrippa and scepticism / Vittoria Perrone Compagni; title: Pedro de Valencia's Academica and scepticism in late Renaissance Spain / John Christian Laursen; title: Inter alias philosophorum gentium sectas, et humani, et mites : Gianfrancesco Pico and the sceptics / Gian Mario Cao; title: Humanus animus nusquam consistit : Doctor Sanchez's diagnosis of the incurable human unrest and ignorance / Agostino Lupoli; title: Montaigne and Plutarch : a scepticism that conquers the mind / Nicola Panichi; title: Charron's academic sceptical wisdom / José R. Maia Neto; title: Giordano Bruno on scepticism / Tristan Dagron; title: The sceptical evaluation of technē and Baconian science / Bernardo J. de Oliveira and José R. Maia Neto; title: Tommaso Campanella : the reappraisal and refutation of scepticism / Gianni Paganini.