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Everything Connects: In Conference with Richard H. Popkin : ...

Everything Connects: In Conference with Richard H. Popkin : ...

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Richard H. Popkin has already been celebrated in two Festschriften as one of the century's greatest historians of philosophy.This latest book, whose editors were among those who prepared the first two volumes, centers on Popkin's crucial ...
The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle

The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle

Richard H. Popkin

This is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Richard Popkin's classic The History of Scepticism, first published in 1960, revised in 1979, and since translated into numerous foreign languages.
The High Road to Pyrrhonism

The High Road to Pyrrhonism

Richard H. Popkin

In this sequel to his classic study The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes, Popkin examines the important role played by the revival and reformulation of classical scepticism in eighteenth-century philosophy.
The Third Force in Seventeenth Century Thought

The Third Force in Seventeenth Century Thought

Richard Henry Popkin

This volume contains more than twenty essays in the history of modern philosophy and history of religion by R.H. Popkin. Several of the essays have not been published before.
Scepticism in the Enlightenment

Scepticism in the Enlightenment

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Richard H. Popkin Pacific Palisades, California April 1997 Bibliographic Details 1 . RichardH. Popkin, “Scepticism in the Enlightenment”, first published in Studiesin Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, XXVI, 1963, and subsequently ...
Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the New York State ...

Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the New York State ...

New York State Pharmaceutical Association

Popkin, New York, C. E. Zawadski, Buffalo, Jonas Kress, New York, J. F. O'Brien, Rochester, Samuel S. Dworkin, Chairman, New York. Mr. Popkin then read the recommendations of the Committee. RECOMMENDATIONS By the Committee on  ...
Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections

Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections

Pierre Bayle

Richard Popkin s meticulous translation--the most complete since the eighteenth century--contains selections from thirty-nine articles, as well as from Bayle s four Clarifications.
Philosophy: Made Simple

Philosophy: Made Simple

Richard H. Popkin

This book discusses the developments in philosophy. Organized into seven chapters, this edition begins with an overview of the usage of philosophy in the interpretation or evaluation of what is important or meaningful in life.
The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza

The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza

Richard H. Popkin

"I had read the book before in the shorter Harper Torchbook edition but read it again right through--and found it as interesting and exciting as before. I regard it as one of the seminal books in the history of ideas.
The Second Oswald

The Second Oswald

Richard H. Popkin

THE SECOND OSWALD has been called "the first plausible and significant argumentation on the Kennedy assassination." It takes into account the books by Edward J. Epstein, Mark Lane and Harold Weisberg. Too much was attempted too quickly.
Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and ...

Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and ...

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John Christian Laursen, Gianni Paganini. 10 11 12 13 14 15 7 See Richard Popkin, The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1960; second edition, New York: Humanities Press, 1964); The History of ...
Philosophy of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Philosophy of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Richard H. Popkin

Part of the Readings in the History of Philosophy series, this volume features writings by the most important philosophers of the era: Martin Luther, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Amerigo Vespucci, and more, ...
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition):

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition):

David Hume

Hume's brilliant and dispassionate essay "Of Miracles" has been added in this expanded edition of his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, which also includes "Of the Immortality of the Soul," "Of Suicide," and Richard Popkin's ...
Witness: The Selected Poems of Mario Benedetti

Witness: The Selected Poems of Mario Benedetti

Mario Benedetti

"It gives me great pleasure to see the work of Benedetti, one of the great poets of our language, made available to US readers in Popkin's wonderful translations.
From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography

From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography

Jeremy D. Popkin

From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography offers a concise yet comprehensive and up-to-date account of the many ways in which history has been studied and recounted, from the ancient world to the new universe of the Internet.
Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Henry Savage

Richard Middleton . . . Frontispiece Camera Portrait by E. O. Hoppé. Facing page Richard Middleton at the Age of 7 . . 10 Richard Middleton in Fancy Dress . . 28 A Bohemian Gathering . . . . 36 Sketch by Herbert Garland. Richard Middleton at ...
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...

Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...

Richard S. Newman

Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Richard S. Newman ... —Richard Allen, “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves and Approve the Practice” With his coauthorship of the yellow-fever pamphlet, Richard ...
Brotherly Love: Freemasonry and Male Friendship in ...

Brotherly Love: Freemasonry and Male Friendship in ...

Kenneth Loiselle

... the late Sharon Kettering, Wim Klooster, Chris- tian Kühner, Marisa Linton, Darrin McMahon, Jean-Marie Mercier, Jeffrey Merrick, Paul Monod, Nathan Perl- Rosenthal, Jeremy Popkin, the late Charles Porset, Christophe Portalez, Céline Sala ...
New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson, University of Louisville Kentucky Richard Wilson, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English Richard Dutton, Richard Dutton. First published 1992 by Longman Group Limited Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, ...
The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third

The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third

Alice Ida Perry Wood

In 1610, Robert Niccol's new edition of The Mirror for Magistrates appeared, in which there were two poems on Richard the Third, The Two Princes, and Richard III, the last to replace Segar's poem, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, ...
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run

The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run

Rob Stone

... Richard Linklater Cinematography: Richard Linklater Editor: Richard Linklater Main Cast: Richard Linklater, James Goodwin, Daniel Kratochvil, Linda Finney, Tracy Crabtree, Linda Levine, Lisa Schiebold, Erin MCafée, Denise Montgomery,  ...
Richard III

Richard III

Richard Andersen

Richard Andersen. Berger, Harry Jr. "Conscience and Complicity in Richard III," in Richard III, edited by Thomas Cartelli. New York: Norton, 2009. Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
Programming of Life

Programming of Life

Donald E. Johnson

Dawkins (Richard), “Book Review,” The New York Times, 4/9/89, section 7, p3. Dawkins (Richard), River Out of Eden,1995, p83. Dawkins (Richard), The Blind Watchmaker, 1996B. Dawkins (Richard), Climbing Mount Improbable, 1996C.
The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature

The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature

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B78 1991 Burton, Richard D. E., Baudelaire and the Second Republic : writing and revolution / Richard D.E. Burton. Oxford [England] .... PQ2230.S84 Stowe, Richard S. Alexandre Dumas (pere) / by Richard S. Stowe. Boston : Twayne ...
Through the Eyes of Darwin and Genesis:

Through the Eyes of Darwin and Genesis:

Bill Nielsen

Dawkins, Richard. An Appetite for Wonder. New York: Ecco, 2013. Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. London: Penguin, 1986. Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. New York: First Mariner Books, 2008. Dawkins, Richard. The Greatest ...
War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...

War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...

Richard Toronto

Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction Richard Toronto . Interview by author. Telephone. August 17, 1983. Yerxa, Richard. Interview by author. Telephone. 2008. Letters Ackerman, Forrest J. Letter to ...
Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability - Lite: A ...

Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability - Lite: A ...

Donald E. Johnson

Dawkins (Richard), The Selfish Gene, 1976. Dawkins (Richard),”The Necessity of Darwinism,” New Scientist: 94, 4/15/82, p130. Dawkins (Richard), Scientific American, 6/88. Dawkins (Richard), “Book Review,” The New York Times, 4/9/89,  ...
Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff;

Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff;

Richard Watson

A N E O DOT ES OF THE LIFE OF RICHARD WATSON, BISHOP OF LAN DAFF: WRITTEN BY HIM SELF AT DIFFERENT INTERVALS, AND REVISED IN 1814. PUBLISHED BY HIS SON, RICHARD WATSON, LL.B. PREBENDARY OF ...
Black Boy

Black Boy

Richard Wright

At four years of age, Richard Wright set fire to his home; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - ­ temporarily - an alcoholic.
Life and Inventions of Richard Roberts, 1789-1864

Life and Inventions of Richard Roberts, 1789-1864

Richard Leslie Hills

This is a biography of Richard Roberts, one of Britain's greatest inventors and the father of production engineering.

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