The Legacies of Richard Popkin

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Popkin, Jeremy D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas, 198
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History of Philosophy.

Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005) transformed the study of the history of philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. His History of Scepticism and his many other publications demonstrated the centrality of the problem of skepticism in the development of modern thought, the intimate connecti...