Scepticism as a Force in Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Thought

New Findings and New Interpretations of the Role and Influence of Modern Scepticism

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 ————

 

Conference Program

Friday, March 8

10:00 a.m. • coffee

10:30 a.m.

Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Welcoming Remarks

Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky

Introduction

Session 1——

Richard H. Popkin, UCLA

Opening Remarks

Session presentations chaired by

Avrum Stroll, University of California, San Diego

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

Teofilo Ruiz, UCLA

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

Nina Gelbart, Occidental College

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

Robert Westman, University of California, San Diego

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,

UCLA Concluding Remarks

 


 

———— Registration ————

Scepticism as a Force in Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Thought

—— March 8–9, 2002 ——

Papers for this conference will be posted on the Center’s website (http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#March) beginning two weeks before the conference, as they are received, and will remain accessible on line for two weeks after the conference. Registrants who indicate that they do not have access to the Internet will receive hard copies.

Registration deadline: March 1, 2002. Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. Fees: UC faculty & staff: $15; students with id: no charge; others: $25. Fees cover lunches, refreshments, and advance copies of papers.* *On the Internet or by mail (please see above).

 


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