Skepticism and certainty in the age of Enlightenment [electronic resource] /Anton M. Matytsin.
By: Matytsin, Anton M [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: BookPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781421420530; 1421420538.Subject(s): Rationalism | Skepticism -- History -- 18th century | EnlightenmentGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 190.9/0336 Online resources: Full text available:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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