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008 090601s2009 ne b 101 0 eng
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050 00 $aB837$b.S5685 2009
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245 00 $aSkepticism in the modern age :$bbuilding on the work of Richard Popkin /$cedited by José R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini, John Christian Laursen.
260 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$c2009.
300 $avii, 389 p. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aBrill's studies in intellectual history,$x0920-8607 ;$vv. 181
500 $aProceedings 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / José R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini, and John Christian Laursen -- Richard Popkin and his history of scepticism / Jeremy D. Popkin -- Part one: 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 / Sérgio Cardoso -- Montaigne's radical skepticism / Luiz Eva -- Part two: Early modern thinkers close to skepticism. Skeptical aspects of Francesco Guicciardini's thought / Newton Bignotto -- Probability, certainty and facts in Francis Bacon's natural histories : a double attitude towards skepticism / Silvia Manzo -- Skepticism and cynicism in the work of Pedro de Valencia / John Christian Laursen -- Periegesis and skepticism : La Peyrère, geographer / Frédéric Gabriel -- Skepticism, belief, and justification / Plínio Junqueira Smith -- Part three: Skepticism and politics. Absolutism and despotism in Samuel Sorbière : notes on skepticism and politics / Lorenzo Bianchi -- Montaigne's and Bayle's variations : the philosophical form of skepticism in politics / Renato Lessa -- 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 -- Descartes and Renaissance skepticism : the Sanches case / Gianni Paganini -- 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 -- Part five: Skepticism in early Cartesianism. Early German reactions to Huet's Censura / Jean-Robert Armogathe -- Acquired skepticism in the seventeenth century / José R. Maia Neto -- Skepticism and solipsism in the eighteenth century : returning to the egoist question / Sébastien Charles -- Part six: Hume. Skepticism and religious belief in A treatise of human nature / Lívia Guimarães -- Criticism and science in Hume / Frédéric Brahami.
650 0 $aSkepticism$xHistory$vCongresses.
700 1 $aMaia Neto, José Raimundo,$d1959-
700 1 $aPaganini, Gianni,$d1950-
700 1 $aLaursen, John Christian.
830 0 $aBrill's studies in intellectual history ;$vv. 181.