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Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2009

1 online resource (vii, 389 p.)

ISBN 9789047431909 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9004177841 (hardback : alk. paper)

ISBN 9789004177840 (hardback : alk. paper)

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

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

Part three: 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 four: 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 five: 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 six: Hume. Skepticism and religious belief in A treatise of human nature / Livia Guimaraes -- Criticism and science in Hume / Frederic Brahami.

Introduction / Jose 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 / Sergio 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 Peyrere, geographer / Frederic Gabriel -- Skepticism, belief, and justification / Plinio Junqueira Smith ---

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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