Scepticism and irreligion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Introduction, Richard Popkin 1. Gassendi's scepticism as a religious attitude, Sylvia Murr 2. From "learned ignorance" to scepticism: Descartes and Calvinist orthodoxy, Theo Verbeek 3. Descartes' scepticism, Richard A. Watson 4. Hobbes: religion and ideology, Ezequiel de Olaso 5. "A disease incurable": Scepticism and the Cambridge Platonists, Alan Gabbey 6. The answer to scepticism of Queen Christina's academy, Susanna Akerman 7. Science, philosophy, and atheism: Edward Stillingfleet's defence of religion, Sarah Hutton 8. Orthodoxy and scepticism in the early Dutch enlightenment, Ernestine van der Wall 9. Isaac Vossius and the English biblical critics 1650-1689, David S. Katz 10. Skepticism and the problem of atheism in early-modern France, Alan Charles Kors 11. Scepticism and the Traite des trois imposteurs, Silvia Berti 12. The wisdom of Simonides: Bayle and La Mothe Le Vayer, Ruth Whelan 13. Bayle's attack on natural theology, Harry M. Bracken 14. Das Theodizeeproblem und Bayles fideistischer Losungsversuch, Lothar Kreimendahl 15. Biblical interpretation, Newton and English Deism, James E. Force 16. Scepticisme et religion dans la Reponse a un theologien du medecin Gaultier et sa posterite clandestine, Olivier Bloch 17. Diogenes Laertius's Life of Pyrrho and the interpretation of ancient scepticism in the history of philosophy: Stanley through Brucker to Tennemann, Constance Blackwell Index