Sceptical Doubt and Disbelief in Modern European Thought

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Vicente Raga Rosaleny is an associate professor of History of Modern Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia). His research deals with the history of early modern philosophy, with particular emphases on Montaigne, Descartes and modern scepticism. His recent publications include a book on Montaigne's scepticism published by the University of Antioquia in 2016 and an introduction to contemporary problems in the Theory of Knowledge, also published by the UdeA in 2017.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, the history of modern philosophy, and analytical theory of knowledge (both in international journals and anthologies, including Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century. Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklarüng, Dordrecht, Springer, 2013,and Academic Scepticism in the Development of Early Modern Philosophy, Dordrecht, Spriner, 2017 (both with Sébastien Charles). He translated Malebranchess De la recherche de la vérité into Portuguese.

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