The History of Scepticism

Richard H. Popkin is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, Adjunct Professor f History and Philosophy at UCLA, and editor of the Columbia History of Western Philosophy.

• 1: The Intellectual Crisis of the Reformation2: The Revival of Greek Scepticism in the Sixteenth Century3: Michel de Montaigne and the Nouveaux Pyrrhoniens4: The Influence of the New Pyrrhonism5: The Libertins Erudits6: The Counter-Attack Begins7: Constructive or Mitigated Scepticism8: Herbert of Cherbury and Jean de Silhon9: Descartes: Conqueror of Scepticism10: Descartes: Sceptique Malgré Lui11: Some Spiritual and Religious Answers to Scepticism and Descartes: Henry More, Blaise Pascal and the Quietists12: Political and Practical Answers to Scepticism: Thomas Hobbes13: Philosophers of the Royal Society: Wilkins, Boyle, and Glanvill14: Biblical Criticism and the Beginnings of Religious Scepticism15: Spinoza's Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism16: Scepticism and Late Seventeenth-Century Metaphysics17: The New Sceptics: Simon Foucher and Pierre Daniel Huet18: Pierre Bayle: Super-Scepticism and the Beginnings of the Enlightenment Dogmatism

The present volume will take its place as a masterpiece that will continue to provoke controversy and further research in the foreseeable future.