Academic Scepticism in the Development of Early Modern Philosophy

Plínio Junqueira Smith is professor of History of Modern Philosophy and Theory of Knowledge at Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Brazil). He has published many books on the history of scepticism, as well as many papers on scepticism, history of modern philosophy, and analytical theory of knowledge (both in international journals and collective works, including Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century. Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklarüng, Dordrecht, Springer, 2013 (with Sébastien Charles). He translated Malebranches’s De la recherche de la vérité into Portuguese. Sébastien Charles is the Dean of Research and Creativity at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Canada). His research deals with the history of early modern philosophy, with particular emphases on Berkeley and modern scepticism. His recent publications include: Pour et contre le scepticisme. Théories et pratiques de l’antiquité aux Lumières, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2014 (with Gianni Paganini); Hume et la religion, Hildesheim, Georg Olms Verlag, 2013; Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century. Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklarüng, Dordrecht, Springer, 2013 (with Plinio Junqueira Smith); Descartes et ses critiques, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2011 (with Syliane Malinowski-Charles).