The Return of Scepticism From Hobbes and Descartes to Bayle
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2003, 2003
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2003 |
| Series: | International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The English Context: From Hobbes to Locke
- Hobbes among ancient and modern sceptics: phenomena and bodies
- John Locke and the sceptics
- ‘Conjecture’, ‘conceivability’, ‘existence’ between Henry More and Ralph Cudworth
- 2. Descartes and his Context
- Charron’s epoché and Descartes’ cogito: the sceptical base of Descartes’ refutation of scepticism
- Scepticisme, tromperie et mensonge chez La Mothe Le Vayer et Descartes
- 3. Post-Cartesian Ramifications
- Against Descartes: Marten Schoock’s De Scepticismo
- Huet, Malebranche and the birth of skepticism
- Arnauld’s posthumous defense of the “philosophie humaine” against heretics and sceptics
- Foucher and the dilemmas of representation: a ‘modern’ problem?
- Scepticism and analysis: Villemandy as a critic of Descartes
- Sceptical readings. of Cartesian evidence in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy
- 4. Politics and Religion
- Scepticism at Port-Royal: the perversion of Pyrrhonian doubt
- Sorbière’s scepticism: between naturalism and absolutism
- Scepticism and the theory of toleration: human fallibility and ‘adiaphora’
- 5. Scepticism and Sciences
- Medicine and skepticism: Martín Martínez (1684–1734)
- From Galileo to Vico. The uncertainty and arrogance of knowledge
- Scepticism and semantic theory: from Locke to Du Marsais
- Le vertige du pyrrhonisme: Hardouin face à l’histoire
- 6. Bayle’s Age
- Théories sceptiques de la politique: Montaigne et Bayle
- Pierre Bayle on scepticism and “common notions”
- Religious truth and freedom of conscience in Noodt and Barbeyrac: the confrontation with Bayle
- 7. After Bayle: Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism
- De la controverse anti-romaine à la théologie naturelle: parcours antisceptiques de Jean-Alphonse Turrettini.-Formey et Crousaz, ou comment fallait-il combattre le scepticisme?
- Jean Meslier, le doute méthodique et le matérialisme