Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeIntroduction. Before reading Sextus. Renaissant Pyrrhonism: A Relative Phenomenon; E. Naya. Self-knowledge, Scepticism and the Quest for a New Method: Juan Luis Vives on cognition and the impossibility of perfect knowledge; L. Casini. Scepticism, Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The Issue of Reformation Scepticism Revisited. What Sebastian Castellio Did or Did Not Know, I. Backus. Tutius ignorare quam scire: Cornelius Agrippa and Scepticism; V.P. Compagni. Pedro de Valencia and Academic Scepticism in Late Sixteenth-Century Spain; J.C. Laursen. Four Renaissance Sceptics. Gianfrancesco Pico and Scepticism; G. Cao. Humanus animus nusquam consistit: doctor Sanchez's diagnosis of incurable human unrest and ignorance; A. Lupoli. A Scepticism that Conquers the Mind. Montaigne and Plutarch; N. Panichi. Charron's Academic Sceptical Wisdom; N. Panichi. Three Reactions to Scepticism. Giordano Bruno on Scepticism; Tristan Dagron. The Sceptical Evaluation of Techné and Baconian Science; B.J. de Oliveira, J.R.M. Neto. T. Campanella: Reappraisal and Refutation of Scepticism; G. Paganini.
Autorenportrait
Gianni Paganini is currently Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Piedmont (Vercelli), he studied Bayle's thought, history of modern scepticism, libertinism and Hobbes's philosophy. Editor of: La filosofia della seconda metà del Novecento (Piccin/Vallardi 1998); The Return of Scepticism. From Hobbes and Descartes to Bayle (Kluwer, 2003). Author of: Pierre Bayle (La Nuova Italia, 1981), Theophrastus redivivus (with G. Canziani, La Nuova Italia, 2 vols., 1981-82), Les philosophies clandestines à l'âge classique (PUF 2005), -Skepsis. Le Débat des modernes sur le scepticisme (Vrin, forthcoming). José R. Maia Neto received his MA in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 1987, and his Ph.D in Philosophy from Washington University in Saint Louis in 1991. Currently he is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Author of Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian (Purdue U. P., 1994), The Christianization of Pyrrhonism (International Archives for Intellectual History, Kluwer, 1995), and co-editor, with Richard H. Popkin, of Skepticism: An Anthology (Prometheus, 2007).
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