This work invites us to view the Pyrrhonist tradition as involving all those who share a
commitment to the activity of Pyrrhonizing and develops fresh, provocative readings of …

In her book Michel de Montaigne: Accidental Philosopher, Ann Hartle argues that
Montaigne's thought is dialectical in the Hegelian sense. Unlike Hegel's progressive …

For most early moderns, the natural world is material: matter comprises rocks, mountains,
and bones. Most early moderns also hold that God is not material. How, then, does God …

The skepticism of Michel de Montaigne is often conceived of as a precedent to René
Descartes' experiments in hyperbolic doubt, contributing to the emergence of rationalism in …

The chapter examines how skepticism influenced the thinking of three seventeenth-century
women, Marie le Jars de Gournay, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, and Queen Christina of …

“The Humor of Skepticism: Therapeutic Laughter in Early Modern Literature” examines how
laughter becomes integral to both medical and philosophical conceptions of therapy …

The School of Doubt conducts a parallel philological and philosophical examination of
Cicero's Academica, a work on Hellenistic epistemology written in the first half of 45 bce. The …

This dissertation traces the development of a new sense of time in seventeenth-century
English literary culture. Focusing on poetry and prose by John Donne, Thomas Hobbes …

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L'objectif de cette thèse est d'analyser le dialogue cartésien La Recherche de la Vérité par
la Lumière Naturelle au sujet d 'une corrélation entre lui et les Objections subis par …