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Table of Contents

Introduction / Jose R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini, and John Christian Laursen
Richard Popkin and his history of scepticism / Jeremy D. Popkin
Part I: 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
Part II: 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 scepticism : la Peyrere, geographer / Frederic Gabriel
Skepticism, belief, and justification / Plinio Junqueira Smith
Part III: 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
Part IV : 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 Sanches case / 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
Part V: 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
Part VI: Hume
Skepticism and religious belief in a treatise of human nature / Livia Guimaraes
Criticism and science in Hume / Frederic Brahami.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Leiden, Boston
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history -- v. 181

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Dewey Decimal Class
149/.73
Library of Congress
B837 .S5685 2009, B837.S5685 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
390

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OL23397612M
ISBN 13
9789004177840
LCCN
2009022054
OCLC/WorldCat
320588902
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6782658

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