Renaissance Scepticisms

CONTENTS

CONTRIBUTORS LIST

INTRODUCTION

PART I BEFORE READING SEXTUS

1. RENAISSANCE PYRRHONISM: A RELATIVE PHENOMENON

2. SELF-KNOWLEDGE, SCEPTICISM AND THE QUEST FOR A NEW METHOD: JUAN LUIS VIVES ON COGNITION AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF PERFECT KNOWLEDGE

PART II SCEPTICISM, REFORMATION AND COUNTER-REFORMATION

3. THE ISSUE OF REFORMATION SCEPTICISM REVISITED: WHAT ERASMUS AND SEBASTIAN CASTELLIO DID OR DID NOT KNOW

4. TUTIUS IGNORARE QUAM SCIRE: CORNELIUS AGRIPPA AND SCEPTICISM

5. PEDRO DE VALENCIA’S ACADEMICA AND SCEPTICISM IN LATE RENAISSANCE SPAIN

PART III FOUR RENAISSANCE SCEPTICS

6. INTER ALIAS PHILOSOPHORUM GENTIUM SECTAS, ET HUMANI, ET MITES: GIANFRANCESCO PICO AND THE SCEPTICS

7. HUMANUS ANIMUS NUSQUAM CONSISTIT: DOCTOR SANCHEZ’S DIAGNOSIS OF THE INCURABLE HUMAN UNREST AND IGNORANCE

8. MONTAIGNE AND PLUTARCH: A SCEPTICISM THAT CONQUERS THE MIND

9. CHARRON’S ACADEMIC SCEPTICAL WISDOM

PART IV THREE REACTIONS TO SCEPTICISM

10. GIORDANO BRUNO ON SCEPTICISM

11. THE SCEPTICAL EVALUATION OF TECHNÊ AND BACONIAN SCIENCE

12. TOMMASO CAMPANELLA: THE REAPPRAISAL AND REFUTATION OF SCEPTICISM

INDEX OF NAMES