Skeptical Tradition Around 1800

Skepticism in Philosophy, Science, and Society

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

Av J. van der Zande, R.H. Popkin, J. Van Der Zande, R. H. Popkin, J. van der Zande

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This collection of essays aims to puts an end to the common notion that Kant solved the problem of skepticism. Commemorating C.F. Staudlin, the first historian of skepticism (1794), scholars of various disciplines disclose the continuing importance of the sceptical tradition in Germany, France, and Britain. Their wide-ranging studies cover Hume, Kant, and the philosophical situation in Germany both before and after Kant, particularly the all-but-forgotten Staudlin himself. But they also investigate the role of skepticism in the political thought (Montucla) and in science (Alexander von Humboldt, Laplace, and others), and in the context of such social issues as smallpox inoculation, suicide, and capital punishment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1997-11-30
Mått156 x 234 x 31 mm
Vikt898 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternational Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
Antal sidor468
Upplaga1998
FörlagKluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN9780792348467

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I. French and Scottish Skepticism.- The Existence of External Objects in Hume’s Treatise: Realism, Skepticism, and the Task of Philosophy.- Hume and Skepticism in Late Eighteenth-Century France.- Brissot and Condorcet: Skeptical Philosophers.- Mathematical Skepticism: A Sketch with Historian in Foreground.- Commentary: Pascal, Skepticism, and the French Enlightenment.- II. German Skepticism up to Kant.- The Moderate Skepticism of German Popular Philosophy.- Skepticism: Philosophical Disease or Cure?.- Kant’s Responses to Skepticism.- Commentary: Skepticism in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy.- III. German Skepticism after Kant.- Putting Doubt in Its Place: Karl Leonhard Reinhold on the Relationship between Philosophical Skepticism and Transcendental Idealism.- Polemic and Dogmatism: The Two Faces of Skepticism in Aenesidemus-Schulze.- Skepticism and Methodological Monism: Aenesidemus-Schulze versus Arcesilaus-Erhard.- Commentary: Reading Schulze’s Aenesidemus.- IV. Science and Skepticism.- “Baconianism” in Revolutionary Germany: Humboldt’s “Great Instauration”.- A Scientist Responds to his Skeptical Crisis: Laplace’s Philosophy of Science.- Analogy, Comparison, and Active Living Forces: Late Enlightenment Responses to the Skeptical Critique of Causal Analysis.- Commentary.- V. Skepticism and Political Theories.- The Practical Value of Hume’s Mitigated Skepticism.- Burke and the Religious Sources of Skeptical Conservatism.- Tocqueville’s Flight from Doubt and His Search for Certainty: Skepticism in a Democratic Age.- VI. Skepticism and Social Issues.- What Do You Think of Smallpox Inoculation? A Crucial Question in the Eighteenth Century, Not Only for Physicians.- Skepticism and the Discourse about Suicide in the Eighteenth Century: Traces of aPhilosophical Concept.- The Debate about Capital Punishment and Skepticism in Late Enlightenment Germany.- Commentary: Skepticism and Social Issues.- VII. Carl Friedrich Stäudlin in Context.- Some Thoughts about Stäudlin’s History and Spirit of Skepticism.- Skepticism as a Sect, Skepticism as a Philosophical Stance: Johann Jakob Brucker versus Carl Friedrich Stäudlin.- Skepticism and the History of Moral Philosophy: The Case of Carl Friedrich Stäudlin.- Commentary: Stäudlin and the Historiography of Philosophy.- VIII. Skepticism Bibliography, 1989–1991.- Bibliography, 1989–91.- Bibliography Index.- Index of Names.