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Table of Contents

Introduction / 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.

Edition Notes

Proceedings 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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149/.73
Library of Congress
B837 .S5685 2009

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vii, 389 p. ;
Number of pages
389

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Open Library
OL23908829M
Internet Archive
skepticismmodern00neto
ISBN 10
9004177841
ISBN 13
9789004177840
LCCN
2009022054

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