The specter of skepticism in the age of Enlightenment

• Verfasst von: Matytsin, Anton M. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The specter of skepticism in the age of Enlightenment
• Verf.angabe: Anton M. Matytsin
• Verlagsort: Baltimore
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• E-Jahr: 2016
• Jahr: [2016]
• Umfang: xi, 361 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 1-4214-2052-X
• ISBN: 1-4214-2053-8
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2052-3
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2053-0
• Schlagwörter: (s)Skeptizismus / (s)Aufklärung
• Schlagwörter: (s)Skeptizismus / (s)Aufklärung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Matytsin, Anton M., 1985 - : The specter of skepticism in the age of enlightenment. - Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. - 1 online resource (377 pages)
• K10plus-PPN: 860689581

Abstract

The "age of reason" and the specter of skepticism -- The spectrum of anti-skepticism -- The walking ignorant: the skeptical "epidemic" in the eighteenth century -- Pierre Bayle-Bete Noire and the elusive skeptic -- The specter of Bayle returns to haunt France -- Secret skepticism: Huet's fideistic fumbles -- A new hope: the critics of Pyrrhonism strike back -- The Berlin compromise: mitigated skepticism and probability -- Disciplining doubt -- Matter over mind: dualism, materialism, and skepticism in eighteenth-century epistemology -- A matter of debate: conceptions of material substance in the "scientific revolution" -- War of the worlds: Cartesian vortices and Newtonian gravitation in eighteenth-century astronomy -- Historical Pyrrhonism and its discontents