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Richard Popkin
American academic philosopher (1923-2005) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 81
Richard Henry Popkin was an American academic philosopher who specialized in the history of enlightenment philosophy and early modern anti-dogmatism.
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About this person
His 1960 work The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes introduced one previously unrecognized influence on Western thought in the seventeenth century, the Pyrrhonian Scepticism of Sextus Empiricus. Popkin also was an internationally acclaimed scholar on Christian millenarianism and Jewish messianism.
Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1923 to 2005 · aged 81
