TY - BOOK AU - Maia Neto,José Raimundo AU - Paganini,Gianni AU - Laursen,John Christian ED - ebrary, Inc. ED - Skepticism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment : a conference in memory of Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005) TI - Skepticism in the modern age: building on the work of Richard Popkin T2 - Brill's studies in intellectual history, AV - B837 .S5685 2009eb U1 - 149/.73 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Leiden [Netherlands], Boston PB - Brill KW - Skepticism KW - History KW - Congresses KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10439135 ER -