Renaissance scepticisms / edited by Gianni Paganini and José R. Maia Neto.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Renaissance Pyrrhonism / Emmanuel Naya -- Self-knowledge, scepticism and the quest for a new method : Juan Luis Vives on cognition and the impossibility of perfect knowledge / Lorenzo Casini -- The issue of Reformation scepticism revisited : what Erasmus and Sebastian Castellio did or did not know / Irena Backus -- Tutius ignorare quam scire : Cornelius Agrippa and scepticism / Vittoria Perrone Compagni -- Pedro de Valencia's Academica and scepticism in late Renaissance Spain / John Christian Laursen -- Inter alias philosophorum gentium sectas, et humani, et mites : Gianfrancesco Pico and the sceptics / Gian Mario Cao -- Humanus animus nusquam consistit : Doctor Sanchez's diagnosis of the incurable human unrest and ignorance / Agostino Lupoli -- Montaigne and Plutarch : a scepticism that conquers the mind / Nicola Panichi -- Charron's academic sceptical wisdom / José R. Maia Neto -- Giordano Bruno on scepticism / Tristan Dagron -- The sceptical evaluation of technē and Baconian science / Bernardo J. de Oliveira and José R. Maia Neto -- Tommaso Campanella : the reappraisal and refutation of scepticism / Gianni Paganini.