Description:
Surveying the use of skepticism in works by Hobbes, Descartes, Hume, Smith, and Kant, among others, these essays demonstrate the pervasive impact of skepticism on the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe.
Brief description:
John Christian Laursen is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside.
Review Quotes:
'The volume features thorough, well documented, and wide-ranging scholarship on both primary and secondary texts, drawing from literature, political treatises, moral theory and of course philosophy.'
--Kristen Irwin, International Journal for the Study of Skepticism vol 7:2017