Sceptical Doubt and Disbelief in Modern European Thought

Vicente Raga Rosaleny is an associate professor of History of Modern Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia). His research deals with the history of early modern philosophy, with particular emphases on Montaigne, Descartes and modern scepticism. His recent publications include a book on Montaigne's scepticism published by the University of Antioquia in 2016 and an introduction to contemporary problems in the Theory of Knowledge, also published by the UdeA in 2017.Plínio Junqueira Smith is professor of History of Modern Philosophy and Theory of Knowledge at Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Brazil). He has published many books on the history of scepticism, as well as many papers on scepticism, the history of modern philosophy, and analytical theory of knowledge (both in international journals and anthologies, including Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century. Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklarüng, Dordrecht, Springer, 2013,and Academic Scepticism in the Development of Early Modern Philosophy, Dordrecht, Spriner, 2017 (both with Sébastien Charles). He translated Malebranches’s De la recherche de la vérité into Portuguese.

• 1. “What a Foolish Project he had to Paint his Own Portrait!”: The Influence of Montaigne’s “Straightforward Pyrrhonism” in the Rise of Pascal’s Self (Vicente Raga-Rosaleny).- 2. On the Possibility of Knowledge: Skeptical Arguments and Baconian Idols (Plínio Junqueira Smith).- 3. Augustine’s and Montaigne’s Deployments of Skepticism Against Religious Rationalism (José R. Maia Neto).- 4. The Challenge of the Criterion (Mauricio Zuluaga).- 5. Modern Skeptical Disturbances and their Remedies (Catalina González).- 6. Skepticism and Clandestine Literature: Doutes des Pyrrhoniens (Fernando Bahr).- 7. Doubt, Disbelief, and Irreligion: From Montaigne’s Skepticism to Meslier’s Atheism (Manuel Tizziani).- 8. Reading Bayle, Again: A Survey of the Interpretive Landscape and A Defense of the Academic-Moral Knowledge Reading (Kristen Irwin).- 9. The Role of Skepticism in Bayle’s Theory of Toleration (Michael W. Hickson).- 10. Hume’s Teresic Politics (Peter S. Fosl).- 11. “True Religion” and Hume’s Practical Atheism (Paul Russell).- 12. The Critical Target of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Humean Skepticism or Spinozistic Naturalism? (Anders Kraal).- 13. Disciplining Skepticism through Kant’s Critique, Fichte’s Idealism, and Hegel’s Negations (Meghant Sudan).- 14. Skepticism and Negation in the Young Hegel: Schulze, Fichte and Nihilism (Eduardo Brandão).- 15. Nietzsche: an Experimental Skeptic in Favor of the Question of Values (Kathia Hanza).- 16. The Missing End of the Threefold Cord in the Transmission of Ancient Skepticism into Modernity: The Lives by Diogenes Laertius (Jorge Ornelas).