The specter of skepticism in the age of Enlightenment /

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The ancient Greek philosophy of Pyrrhonian skepticism spread across a wide spectrum of disciplines in the 1600s, casting a shadow over the European learned world. The early modern skeptics expressed doubt concerning the existence of an objective reality independent of human perception. They also que...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Matytsin, Anton M., 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Temas:
1700-1799
Enlightenment.
Skepticism > History > 18th century.
Rationalism.
Siècle des Lumières.
Scepticisme > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Rationalisme.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
rationalism (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Enlightenment
Rationalism
Skepticism
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The "age of reason" and the specter of skepticism
  • The spectrum of anti-skepticism
  • The walking ignorant: the skeptical "epidemic" in the eighteenth century
  • Pierre Bayle-Bete Noire and the elusive skeptic
  • The specter of Bayle returns to haunt France
  • Secret skepticism: Huet's fideistic fumbles
  • A new hope: the critics of Pyrrhonism strike back
  • The Berlin compromise: mitigated skepticism and probability
  • Disciplining doubt
  • Matter over mind: dualism, materialism, and skepticism in eighteenth-century epistemology
  • A matter of debate: conceptions of material substance in the "scientific revolution"
  • War of the worlds: Cartesian vortices and Newtonian gravitation in eighteenth-century astronomy
  • Historical Pyrrhonism and its discontents.

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