Skepticism in the modern age
Subtitle: building on the work of Richard Popkin
By: edited by Jose 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
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9789004177840
Subjects: Skepticism -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jose R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini, and John Christian Laursen; title: Richard Popkin and his history of scepticism / Jeremy D. Popkin; title: Part I: Montaigne and his skeptical background; title: 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 / Sergio Cardoso; title: Montaigne's radical skepticism / Luiz Alves Eva; title: Part II: Early modern thinkers close to skepticism; title: Skeptical aspects of Francesco Guicciardini's thought / Newton Bignotto de Souza; title: Probability, certainty and facts in Francis Bacon's natural; title: Histories / Silvia Manzo; title: Skepticism and cynicism in the work of Pedro de Valencia / John Christian Laursen; title: Periegesis and scepticism : la Peyrere, geographer / Frederic Gabriel; title: Skepticism, belief, and justification / Plinio Junqueira Smith; title: Part III: Skepticism and politics; title: Absolutism and despotism in Samuel Sorbiere : 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 IV : Sources of cartesian doubt; title: Aristotle's perplexity becomes Descartes's doubt : metaphysics 3, 1 and methodical doubt in Benito Pereira and Rene 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 la, de nous amener a la verite par l'exces de la verite, c'est-a-dire par la mensonge" / Giulia Belgioioso; title: Part V: Skepticism in early cartesianism; title: Early German reactions to Huet's Censura / Jean-Robert Armogathe; title: Acquired skepticism in the seventeenth century / Jose R. Maia Neto; title: Skepticism and solipsism in the eighteenth century : returning to the egoist question / Sebastien Charles; title: Part VI: Hume; title: Skepticism and religious belief in a treatise of human nature / Livia Guimaraes; title: Criticism and science in Hume / Frederic Brahami.