The skeptical tradition around 1800 : skepticism in philosophy, science, and society / edited by Johan van der Zande and Richard H. Popkin.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Zande, Johan van der.

Popkin, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1923-2005

Conference Name:

Conference on Skepticism in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century (1995 : Leipzig, Germany, and Göttingen, Germany)

Series:

Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 155.

Archives internationales d'histoire des idées = International archives of the history of ideas ; 155

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Skepticism--History--18th century--Congresses.

Skepticism.

History.

Skepticism--History--19th century--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xix, 462 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dodrecht ; Boston : Kluwer, [1998]

Contents:

I. French and Scottish Skepticism

The Existence of External Objects in Hume's Treatise: Realism, Skepticism, and the Task of Philosophy / Marina Frasca-Spada 3

Hume and Skepticism in Late Eighteenth-Century France / Laurence L. Bongie 15

Brissot and Condorcet: Skeptical Philosophers / Richard H. Popkin 31

Mathematical Skepticism: A Sketch with Historian in Foreground / Luciano Floridi 41

Commentary: Pascal, Skepticism, and the French Enlightenment / Jose R. Maia Neto 61

II. German Skepticism up to Kant

The Moderate Skepticism of German Popular Philosophy / Johan van der Zande 69

Skepticism: Philosophical Disease or Cure? / Manfred Kuehn 81

Kant's Responses to Skepticism / Rudolf A. Makkreel 101

Commentary: Skepticism in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy / John Christian Laursen 111

III. German Skepticism after Kant

Putting Doubt in Its Place: Karl Leonhard Reinhold on the Relationship between Philosophical Skepticism and Transcendental Idealism / Daniel Breazeale 119

Polemic and Dogmatism: The Two Faces of Skepticism in Aenesidemus-Schulze / Thomas Grundmann 133

Skepticism and Methodological Monism: Aenesidemus-Schulze versus Arcesilaus-Erhard / Marcelo Stamm 143

Commentary: Reading Schulze's Aenesidemus / Achim Engstler 159

IV. Science and Skepticism

"Baconianism" in Revolutionary Germany: Humboldt's "Great Instauration" / Michael Dettelbach 175

A Scientist Responds to his Skeptical Crisis: Laplace's Philosophy of Science / Roger Hahn 187

Analogy, Comparison, and Active Living Forces: Late Enlightenment Responses to the Skeptical Critique of Causal Analysis / Peter H. Reill 203

V. Skepticism and Political Theories

The Practical Value of Hume's Mitigated Skepticism / Dario Castiglione 221

Burke and the Religious Sources of Skeptical Conservatism / Iain Hampsher-Monk 235

Tocqueville's Flight from Doubt and His Search for Certainty: Skepticism in a Democratic Age / Harvey Mitchell 261

VI. Skepticism and Social Issues

What Do You Think of Smallpox Inoculation? A Crucial Question in the Eighteenth Century, Not Only for Physicians / Peter Albrecht 283

Skepticism and the Discourse about Suicide in the Eighteenth Century: Traces of a Philosophical Concept / Vera Lind 297

The Debate about Capital Punishment and Skepticism in Late Enlightenment Germany / Otto Ulbricht 315

Commentary: Skepticism and Social Issues / Joachim Whaley 329

VII. Carl Friedrich Staudlin in Context

Some Thoughts about Staudlin's History and Spirit of Skepticism / Richard Popkin 339

Skepticism as a Sect, Skepticism as a Philosophical Stance: Johann Jakob Brucker versus Carl Friedrich Staudlin / Constance W.T. Blackwell 343

Skepticism and the History of Moral Philosophy: The Case of Carl Friedrich Staudlin / John Christian Laursen 365

Commentary: Staudlin and the Historiography of Philosophy / Ulrich Johannes Schneider 379

VIII. Skepticism Bibliography, 1989-1991.

Notes:

Proceedings of the Conference on Skepticism in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century, Leipzig and Göttingen, July 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-453) and indexes.

ISBN:

079234846X

OCLC:

60166784