:The History of Scepticism from Savonarola to Bayle

Abstract

1: The Intellectual Crisis of the Reformation 2: The Revival of Greek Scepticism in the Sixteenth Century 3: Michel de Montaigne and the Nouveaux Pyrrhoniens 4: The Influence of the New Pyrrhonism 5: The Libertins Erudits 6: The Counter-Attack Begins 7: Constructive or Mitigated Scepticism 8: Herbert of Cherbury and Jean de Silhon 9: Descartes: Conqueror of Scepticism 10: Descartes: Sceptique Malgre Lui 11: Some Spiritual and Religious Answers to Scepticism and Descartes: Henry More, Blaise Pascal and the Quietists 12: Political and Practical Answers to Scepticism: Thomas Hobbes 13: Philosophers of the Royal Society: Wilkins, Boyle, and Glanvill 14: Biblical Criticism and the Beginnings of Religious Scepticism 15: Spinoza's Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism 16: Scepticism and Late Seventeenth-Century Metaphysics 17: The New Sceptics: Simon Foucher and Pierre Daniel Huet 18: Pierre Bayle: Super-Scepticism and the Beginnings of the Enlightenment Dogmatism

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