Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721) and the skeptics of his time /
This book offers a detailed and scholarly historical and philosophical examination of French scepticism from Descartes to the beginning of the Enlightenment by examining the views of Pierre-Daniel Huet (16301721). It shows the crucial role played by Huet in the modification of the early modern scept...
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| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
[2022]
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| Series: | Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ;
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Erudite Libertines
- Chapter 3. Traite Philosophique de la Faiblesse de lEsprit Humain: First Book of Huets Planned Alnetanae Quaestiones in Five Books
- Chapter 4. From Cartesian Physics to Cartesian Skepticism against Cartesian Metaphysics
- Chapter 5. French Skeptics in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
- Chapter 6. Conclusion.