Sceptical Doubt and Disbelief in Modern European Thought

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “What a Foolish Project He Had to Paint His Own Portrait!”: The Influence of Montaigne’s “Straightforward Pyrrhonism” in the Rise of Pascal’s Self

Chapter 3 On the Possibility of Knowledge: Skeptical Arguments and Baconian Idols

Chapter 4 Augustine’s and Montaigne’s Deployments of Skepticism Against Religious Rationalism

Chapter 5 Descartes and the Problem of the Criterion

Chapter 6 Modern Skeptical Disturbances and their Remedies

Chapter 7 Skepticism and Clandestine Literature: Doutes des Pyrrhoniens

Chapter 8 Doubt, Disbelief, and Irreligion: From Montaigne’s Skepticism to Meslier’s Atheism

Chapter 9 Reading Bayle, Again: A Survey of the Interpretive Landscape and A Defense of the Academic-Moral Knowledge Reading

Chapter 10 The Role of Skepticism in Bayle’s Theory of Toleration

Chapter 11 Hume’s Teresic Politics

Chapter 12 “True Religion” and Hume’s Practical Atheism

Chapter 13 The Critical Target of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Humean Skepticism or Spinozistic Naturalism?

Chapter 14 Disciplining Skepticism through Kant’s Critique, Fichte’s Idealism, and Hegel’s Negations

Chapter 15 Skepticism and Negation in the Young Hegel: Schulze, Fichte and Nihilism

Chapter 16 Nietzsche: Experimental Skepticism and the Question of Values

Chapter 17 The Missing End of the Threefold Cord in the Transmission of Ancient Skepticism into Modernity: The Lives by Diogenes Laertius