Richard H. Popkin
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Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles. Author of History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza.
Primary Contributions (5)
In Western philosophy, skepticism is the attitude of doubting knowledge claims set forth in various areas. Skeptics have challenged the adequacy or reliability of these claims by asking what principles they are based upon or what they actually establish. They have questioned whether some such…
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