1. The English Context: From Hobbes to Locke -- Hobbes among ancient and modern sceptics: phenomena and bodies -- John Locke and the sceptics -- โConjectureโ, โconceivabilityโ, โexistenceโ between Henry More and Ralph Cudworth -- 2. Descartes and his Context -- Charronโs epochรฉ and Descartesโ cogito: the sceptical base of Descartesโ refutation of scepticism -- Scepticisme, tromperie et mensonge chez La Mothe Le Vayer et Descartes -- 3. Post-Cartesian Ramifications -- Against Descartes: Marten Schoockโs De Scepticismo -- Huet, Malebranche and the birth of skepticism -- Arnauldโs posthumous defense of the โphilosophie humaineโ against heretics and sceptics -- Foucher and the dilemmas of representation: a โmodernโ problem? -- Scepticism and analysis: Villemandy as a critic of Descartes -- Sceptical readings. of Cartesian evidence in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy -- 4. Politics and Religion -- Scepticism at Port-Royal: the perversion of Pyrrhonian doubt -- Sorbiรจreโs scepticism: between naturalism and absolutism -- Scepticism and the theory of toleration: human fallibility and โadiaphoraโ -- 5. Scepticism and Sciences -- Medicine and skepticism: Martรญn Martรญnez (1684โ1734) -- From Galileo to Vico. The uncertainty and arrogance of knowledge -- Scepticism and semantic theory: from Locke to Du Marsais -- Le vertige du pyrrhonisme: Hardouin face ร  lโhistoire -- 6. Bayleโs Age -- Thรฉories sceptiques de la politique: Montaigne et Bayle -- Pierre Bayle on scepticism and โcommon notionsโ -- Religious truth and freedom of conscience in Noodt and Barbeyrac: the confrontation with Bayle -- 7. After Bayle: Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism -- De la controverse anti-romaine ร  la thรฉologie naturelle: parcours antisceptiques de Jean-Alphonse Turrettini -- Formey et Crousaz, ou comment fallait-il combattre le scepticisme? -- Jean Meslier, le doute mรฉthodique et le matรฉrialisme

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