Renaissance Scepticisms (Hardcover)

Introduction. Before reading Sextus. Renaissant Pyrrhonism: A Relative Phenomenon; E. Naya. Self-knowledge, Scepticism and the Quest for a New Method : Juan Luis Vives on cognition and the impossibility of perfect knowledge; L. Casini. Scepticism, Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The Issue of Reformation Scepticism Revisited. What Sebastian Castellio Did or Did Not Know, I. Backus. Tutius ignorare quam scire: Cornelius Agrippa and Scepticism; V.P. Compagni. Pedro de Valencia and Academic Scepticism in Late Sixteenth-Century Spain; J.C. Laursen. Four Renaissance Sceptics. Gianfrancesco Pico and Scepticism; G. Cao. Humanus animus nusquam consistit: doctor Sanchez's diagnosis of incurable human unrest and ignorance; A. Lupoli. A Scepticism that Conquers the Mind. Montaigne and Plutarch; N. Panichi. Charron's Academic Sceptical Wisdom; N. Panichi. Three Reactions to Scepticism. Giordano Bruno on Scepticism; Tristan Dagron. The Sceptical Evaluation of Techne and Baconian Science; B.J. de Oliveira, J.R.M. Neto. T. Campanella: Reappraisal and Refutation of Scepticism; G. Paganini.