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Title Scepticism and irreligion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / edited by Richard H. Popkin and Arjo Vanderjagt.

Imprint Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1993.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  211.709032 Sc67 1993    ---  Available
Description 374 p. ; 25 cm.
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 37
Note English, French, and German.
Proceedings of the Conference on Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, held July 31-Aug. 4, 1990, at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and the Humanities.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Gassendi's scepticism as a religious attitude / Sylvia Murr -- From "learned ignorance" to scepticism : Descartes and Calvinist orthodoxy / Theo Verbeek -- Descartes' scepticism : logic vs. biography / Richard A. Watson -- Hobbes : religion and ideology, notes on the political utilization of religion / Ezequiel de Olaso -- "Disease incurable" : scepticism and the Cambridge Platonists / Alan Gabbey -- Answer to scepticism of Queen Christina's Academy (1656) / Susanna Akerman -- Science, philosophy, and atheism : Edward Stillingfleet's defence of religion / Sarah Hutton -- Orthodoxy and scepticism in the early Dutch Enlightenment / Ernestine van der Wall -- Isaac Vossius and the English biblical critics, 1650-1689 / David S. Katz.
Skepticism and the problem of atheism in early-modern France / Alan Charles Kors -- Scepticism and the Traite de trois imposteurs / Silvia Berti -- Wisdom of Simonides : Bayle and La Mothe Le Vayer / Ruth Whelan -- Bayle's attack on natural theology : the case of Christian Pyrrhonism / Harry M. Bracken -- Das Theodizeeproblem und Bayles fideistischer Losungsversuch / Lothar Kreimendahl -- Biblical interpretation, Newton and English Deism / James E. Force -- Scepticisme et religion dans la Reponse a un theologien du medecin Gaultier et sa posterite clandestine / Olivier Bloch -- Diogenes Laertius's Life of Pyrrho and the interpretation of ancient scepticism in the history of philosophy : Stanley through Brucker to Tennemann / Constance Blackwell.
Subject Skepticism -- History -- 17th century.
Skepticism -- History -- 18th century.
Irreligion -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Irreligion -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Added Author Popkin, Richard Henry, 1923-2005.
Vanderjagt, Arie Johan.
Conference on Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1990 : Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and the Humanities)
ISBN 9004095969 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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