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001 2009022054
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008 090601s2009 ne b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9789004177840 (hardback : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aB837$b.S5685 2009
082 00 $a149/.73$222
245 00 $aSkepticism in the modern age :$bbuilding on the work of Richard Popkin /$cedited by Jose R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini John, Christian Laursen.
260 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$c2009.
263 $a0908
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aBrill's studies in intellectual history,$x0920-8607 ;$vv. 181
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / 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.
650 0 $aSkepticism$xHistory.
700 1 $aMaia Neto, José Raimundo,$d1959-
700 1 $aPaganini, Gianni,$d1950-
700 1 $aLaursen, John Christian.