Description |
374 p. ; 25 cm. |
Series |
Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 37
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Note |
English, French, and German. |
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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. |
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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.
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Skepticism -- History -- 18th century.
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Irreligion -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
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Irreligion -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Added Author |
Popkin, Richard Henry, 1923-2005.
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Vanderjagt, Arie Johan.
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Conference on Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1990 : Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and the Humanities)
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ISBN |
9004095969 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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