Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630–1721) and the Skeptics of his Time

José R. Maia Neto is an expert on the history of modern scepticism who teaches at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. His areas of interest also include early modern history of ideas (philosophical, scientific and religious), Socrates and ancient scepticism, philosophy and literature, and the Brazilian Nineteenth century writer Machado de Assis. He is the author of Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian (Purdue U. P, 1994), The Christianization of Pyrrhonism (Kluwer, 1995) and Academic Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century French Philosophy (Springer, 2014). With Richard Popkin, he co-edited Skepticism in Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Thought (Humanity Books, 2004) and Skepticism, an Anthology (Prometheus Books, 2007); with Gianni Paganini he co-edited Renaissance Scepticisms (Springer, 2009), and with G. Paganini and John Laursen, Skepticism in the Modern Age (Brill, 2009).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Erudite Libertines.- Chapter 3. Traité Philosophique de la Faiblesse de l’Esprit Humain: First Book of Huet’s Planned Alnetanae Quaestiones in Five Books.- Chapter 4. From Cartesian Physics to Cartesian Skepticism against Cartesian Metaphysics.- Chapter 5. French Skeptics in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.