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- Influence
Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections
- P. Bayle, R. H. Popkin, C. Brush
- Philosophy
- 1 December 1965
Richard Popkin's meticulous translation--the most complete since the eighteenth century--contains selections from thirty-nine articles, as well as from Bayle's four Clarifications. The bulk of the… Expand
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The history of scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza
- Ezequiel de Olaso, R. H. Popkin
- Philosophy
- 1 March 1984
"I had read the book before in the shorter Harper Torchbook edition but read it again right through - and found it as interesting and exciting as before. I regard it as one of the seminal books in… Expand
Scepticism in the Enlightenment
- R. H. Popkin, E. Olaso, G. Tonelli
- Philosophy
- 1997
It may seem very presumptuous to pretend to deal with so vast a subject in a brief paper. However, as I shall try to indicate, if the subject is limited to the traditional philosophical meaning of… Expand
Problems of knowledge and action: Theories of knowledge
- R. H. Popkin, C. Schmitt, Q. Skinner, E. Kessler, J. Kraye
- Philosophy
- 1 April 1988
INTRODUCTION The theory of knowledge, as a or the central branch of philosophy, is a post-Renaissance phenomenon that develops from certain critical movements in Renaissance thought. If epistemology… Expand
Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in the Latter Part of the Eighteenth Century
- R. H. Popkin
- Philosophy
- 1997
In the twenty-five years that I have been examining the course of modern scepticism, I have rarely ventured beyond Hume. In this paper I shall offer some tentative views about the development of… Expand
The Spiritualistic Cosmologies of Henry More and Anne Conway
- R. H. Popkin
- Art
- 1990
Henry More has been one of the hardest philosophers to classify. For want of a better term, he is ranked as leading ‘Cambridge Platonist’, a classification that itself is pretty vague. More, on the… Expand
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE JEWISH INDIAN THEORY
- R. H. Popkin
- History
- 1989
No conference dealing with Menasseh ben Israel would be complete without a discussion of the Jewish Indian theory, which was dealt with in Menasseh's most famous work, The Hope of Israel . The theory… Expand