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The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle

Author: Richard Henry Popkin
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : Rev. and expanded edView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Henry Popkin
ISBN: 0195107675 0195107683 9780195107685 9780195107678
OCLC Number: 49550313
Notes: Rev. and expanded ed. of: The history of scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza. Rev. and expanded ed. c1979.
Description: xxiv, 415 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. The intellectual crisis of the reformation --
2. The revival of Greek scepticism in the sixteenth century --
3. Michel de Montaigne and the Nouveaux Pyrrhoniens --
4. The influence of the new Pyrrhonism --
5. The Libertins Érudits --
6. The counterattack begins --
7. Constructive or mitigated scepticism --
8. Herbert of Cherbury and Jean de Silhon --
9. Decartes: conqueror of scepticism --
10. Decartes: Sceptique Malgré Lui --
11. Some spiritual and religious answers to scepticism and descartes: Henry More, Blaise Pascal, and Quietists --
12. Political and practical answers to scepticism: Thomas Hobbes --
13. Philosophers of the royal society: Wilkins, Boyle, and Glanvill --
14. Biblical criticism and the beginning of religious scepticism --
15. Spinoza's scepticism and antiscepticism --
16. Scepticism and late seventeenth-century metaphysics --
17. The new sceptics: Simon Foucher and Pierre-Daniel Huet --
18. Pierre Bayle: superscepticism and the beginnings of enlightenment dogmatism.
Responsibility: Richard Popkin.
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