arranged by Richard H. Popkin, UCLA, and José R. Maia Neto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
———— at the Clark Library, March 8–9, 2002 ————
Friday, March 8
10:00 a.m. • coffee
10:30 a.m.
Peter H. Reill, UCLA
Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky
Session 1——
Richard H. Popkin, UCLA
Session presentations chaired by
José R. Maia Neto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Epoché as Perfection: Montaigne’s View of Ancient Scepticism
Sarah Hutton, Middlesex University
Responses to Scepticism: The Cambridge Platonists and Their Circle
1:00 p.m. • lunch
2:30 p.m.
Session 2——
Session presentations chaired by
Gianni Paganini, Università del Piemonte Orientale
Hobbes and the “Continental”Tradition of Scepticism
Jean-Robert Armogathe, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne
Equivocal Ignorance: The Theological Background
4:30 p.m. • reception
Saturday, March 9
10:00 a.m. • coffee
10:30 a.m.
Session 3——
Session presentations chaired by
Thomas M. Lennon, University of Western Ontario
Huet, Descartes, and the Objection of Objections
Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford
Mathematical Scepticism between Hobbes and Hume
12:30 p.m. • lunch
2:00 p.m.
Session 4——
Session presentations chaired by
Harry M. Bracken, Arizona State University
Berkeley and Scepticism: Berkeley’s Diagnosis of Scepticism —and His Proposed Cure
John Christian Laursen, University of California, Riverside
Scepticism and Tyranny: On the Failures of Recent Historiography of Philosophy in Dealing with the Old Question, Can Sceptics Live Their Scepticism?
Richard H. Popkin,
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Scepticism as a Force in Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Thought
—— March 8–9, 2002 ——
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