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" The history of scepticism : "
Richard Popkin
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BL
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623623
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Popkin, Richard H., (Richard Henry),1923-2005
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The history of scepticism : : from Savonarola to Bayle /\ Richard Popkin
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Rev. and expanded ed
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2003
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xxiv, 415 p. ;; 24 cm
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0195107675
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: 0195107683
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Rev. and expanded ed. of: The history of scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza. Rev. and expanded ed. c1979
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-407) and index
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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
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Skepticism-- History
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B779.P65 2003
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Popkin, Richard H., (Richard Henry),1923-2005.
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