Skepticism in the modern age : building on the work of Richard Popkin / edited by José R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini, John Christian Laursen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maia Neto, José Raimundo, 1959-

Paganini, Gianni, 1950-

Laursen, John Christian.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 181.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 181

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Skepticism--History--Congresses.

Skepticism.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 389 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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.

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.

ISBN:

9789004177840

9004177841

OCLC:

320588902