Sceptical Doubt and Disbelief in Modern European Thought: A New Pan-American Dialogue
Rosaleny, Vicente Raga ; Smith, Plínio Junqueira
Synopsis "Sceptical Doubt and Disbelief in Modern European Thought: A New Pan-American Dialogue"
1. "What a Foolish Project he had to Paint his Own Portrait!" The Influence of Montaigne's "Straightforward Pyrrhonism" in the Rise of Pascal's Self (Vicente Raga-Rosaleny).- 2. On the Possibility of Knowledge: Skeptical Arguments and Baconian Idols (Plínio Junqueira Smith).- 3. Augustine's and Montaigne's Deployments of Skepticism Against Religious Rationalism (José R. Maia Neto).- 4. The Challenge of the Criterion (Mauricio Zuluaga).- 5. Modern Skeptical Disturbances and their Remedies (Catalina González).- 6. Skepticism and Clandestine Literature: Doutes des Pyrrhoniens (Fernando Bahr).- 7. Doubt, Disbelief, and Irreligion: From Montaigne's Skepticism to Meslier's Atheism (Manuel Tizziani).- 8. Reading Bayle, Again: A Survey of the Interpretive Landscape and A Defense of the Academic-Moral Knowledge Reading (Kristen Irwin).- 9. The Role of Skepticism in Bayle's Theory of Toleration (Michael W. Hickson).- 10. Hume's Teresic Politics (Peter S. Fosl).- 11. "True Religion" and Hume's Practical Atheism (Paul Russell).- 12. The Critical Target of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Humean Skepticism or Spinozistic Naturalism? (Anders Kraal).- 13. Disciplining Skepticism through Kant's Critique, Fichte's Idealism, and Hegel's Negations (Meghant Sudan).- 14. Skepticism and Negation in the Young Hegel: Schulze, Fichte and Nihilism (Eduardo Brandão).- 15. Nietzsche: an Experimental Skeptic in Favor of the Question of Values (Kathia Hanza).- 16. The Missing End of the Threefold Cord in the Transmission of Ancient Skepticism into Modernity: The Lives by Diogenes Laertius (Jorge Ornelas).