The Return of Scepticism: From Hobbes and Descartes to Bayle

Introduction; G. Paganini. For a revised history of scepticism; R.H. Popkin. 1: The English Context: From Hobbes to Locke. Hobbes among ancient and modern sceptics: phenomena and bodies; G. Paganini. John Locke and the sceptics; G.A.J. Rogers. Conjecture, conceivability, existence between Henry More and Ralph Cudworth; F. Tomasoni. 2: Descartes and His Context. Charron's epoché and Descartes' cogito: the sceptical base of Descartes refutation of scepticism; J.R. Maia Neto. Scepticisme, tromperie et mensonge chez La Mothe Le Vayer et Descartes; J.-P. Cavaillé. 3: Post-Cartesian Ramifications. Against Descartes: Marten Schoock's De Scepticismo; A. Del Prete. Huet, Malebranche and the birth of skepticism; T.M. Lennon. Arnauld's posthumous defense of the philosophie humaine against heretics and sceptics; G. Belgioioso. Foucher and the dilemmas of representation: a modern problem? E. Scribano. Scepticism and analysis: Villemandy as a critic of Descartes; C. Borghero. Sceptical readings of Cartesian evidence in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy; M.T. Marcialis. 4: Politics and Religion. Scepticism at Port Royal: the perversion of Pyrrhonian doubt; A. McKenna. Sorbière's scepticism: between naturalism and absolutism; L. Bianchi. Scepticism and the theory of toleration: human fallibility and `adiaphora'; L. Simonutti. 5: Scepticism and Sciences. Medicine and skepticism: Martín Martínez (1684-1734); J.C. Laursen. From Galileo to Vico. The uncertainty and arrogance of knowledge; M. Torrini. Scepticism and semantic theory: from Locke to Du Marsais; G. Hassler. Le vertige dupyrrhonisme: Hardouin face à l'histoire; C. Grell. 6: Bayle's Age. Théories sceptiques de la politique: Montaigne et Bayle; F. Brahami. Pierre Bayle on scepticism and common notions; G. Mori. Religious truth and freedom of conscience in Noodt and Barbeyrac: the confrontation with Bayle; F. Lomonaco. 7: After Bayle: Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism. De la controverse anti-romaine à la théologie naturelle: parcours anti-sceptiques de Jean-Alphonse Turrettini; M.-C. Pitassi. Formey et Crousaz, ou comment fallait-il combattre le scepticisme? J. Häseler. Jean Meslier, le doute méthodique et le matérialisme; M. Benítez. Index.