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245 0 0 _aSkepticism in the modern age
_h[electronic resource] :
_bbuilding on the work of Richard Popkin /
_cedited by José R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini, John Christian Laursen.
260 _aLeiden [Netherlands] ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2009.
300 _avii, 389 p.
490 1 _aBrill's studies in intellectual history,
_x0920-8607 ;
_vv. 181
500 _aProceedings 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.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction / 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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aSkepticism
_xHistory
_vCongresses.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
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700 1 _aMaia Neto, José Raimundo,
_d1959-
700 1 _aPaganini, Gianni,
_d1950-
700 1 _aLaursen, John Christian.
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
711 2 _aSkepticism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment : a conference in memory of Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005)
_d(2007 :
_cBelo Horizonte, Brazil)
830 0 _aBrill's studies in intellectual history ;
_vv. 181.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10439135
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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