Acknowledgements

pp.：  9 – 10

Introduction (José R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini, and John Christian Laursen)

pp.：  11 – 24

Richard Popkin and his History of Scepticism (Jeremy D. Popkin)

pp.：  25 – 44

Part One Montaigne and his Skeptical Background

pp.：  45 – 114

The Anthropological Argument: The Rediscovery of Ancient Skepticism in Modern Thought (Danilo Marcondes)

pp.：  47 – 64

The Current Debate about Montaigne's Skepticism (Vicente Raga Rosaleny)

pp.：  65 – 80

On Skeptical Fideism in Montaigne's Apology for Raymond Sebond (Sérgio Cardoso)

pp.：  81 – 92

Montaigne's Radical Skepticism (Luiz Eva)

pp.：  93 – 114

Part Two Early Modern Thinkers Close to Skepticism

pp.：  115 – 200

Skeptical Aspects of Francesco Guicciardini's Thought (Newton Bignotto)

pp.：  117 – 132

Probability, Certainty and Facts in Francis Bacon's Natural Histories. A Double Attitude towards Skepticism (Silvia Manzo)

pp.：  133 – 148

Skepticism and Cynicism in the Work of Pedro de Valencia (John Christian Laursen)

pp.：  149 – 168

Periegesis and Skepticism: La Peyrère, Geographer (Frédéric Gabriel)

pp.：  169 – 180

Skepticism, Belief, and Justification (Plínio Junqueira Smith)

pp.：  181 – 200

Part Three Skepticism and Politics

pp.：  201 – 238

Absolutism and Despotism in Samuel Sorbière: Notes on Skepticism and Politics (Lorenzo Bianchi)

pp.：  203 – 220

Montaigne's and Bayle's Variations: The Philosophical Form of Skepticism in Politics (Renato Lessa)

pp.：  221 – 238

Part Four Sources of Cartesian Doubt

pp.：  239 – 304

Aristotle's Perplexity Becomes Descartes's Doubt: Metaphysics 3, 1 and Methodical Doubt in Benito Pereira and René Descartes (Constance Blackwell)

pp.：  241 – 258

Descartes and Renaissance Skepticism: The Sanches Case (Gianni Paganini)

pp.：  259 – 278

The Hyperbolic Way to the Truth from Balzac to Descartes: "Toute Hyperbole tend là, de Nous Amener à la Vérité par l'excès de la Vérité, c'est-à-dire par le Mensonge" (Giulia Belgioioso)

pp.：  279 – 304

Part Five Skepticism in Early Cartesianism

pp.：  305 – 352

Early German Reactions to Huet's Censura (Jean-Robert Armogathe)

pp.：  307 – 318

Acquired Skepticism in the Seventeenth Century (José R. Maia Neto)

pp.：  319 – 334

Skepticism and Solipsism in the Eighteenth Century: Returning to the Egoist Question (Sébastien Charles)

pp.：  335 – 352

Part Six Hume

pp.：  353 – 390

Skepticism and Religious Belief in A Treatise of Human Nature (Lívia Guimaraes)

pp.：  355 – 374

Criticism and Science in Hume (Frédéric Brahami)

pp.：  375 – 390

Index of Names

pp.：  391 – 400