From the Book - Rev. and expanded ed.
1. The intellectual crisis of the reformation
2. The revival of Greek scepticism in the sixteenth century
3. Michel de Montaigne and the Nouveaux Pyrrhoniens
4. The influence of the new Pyrrhonism
6. The counterattack begins
7. Constructive or mitigated scepticism
8. Herbert of Cherbury and Jean de Silhon
9. Decartes: conqueror of scepticism
10. Decartes: Sceptique Malgré Lui
11. Some spiritual and religious answers to scepticism and descartes: Henry More, Blaise Pascal, and Quietists
12. Political and practical answers to scepticism: Thomas Hobbes
13. Philosophers of the royal society: Wilkins, Boyle, and Glanvill
14. Biblical criticism and the beginning of religious scepticism
15. Spinoza's scepticism and antiscepticism
16. Scepticism and late seventeenth-century metaphysics
17. The new sceptics: Simon Foucher and Pierre-Daniel Huet
18. Pierre Bayle: superscepticism and the beginnings of enlightenment dogmatism.
