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Graduate Student, History
Thesis Title: The Specter of Skepticism and Sources of Certainty in the Early Enlightenment
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Alan Charles Kors
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My dissertation explores the way in which thinkers of the early eighteenth century responded to the challenges posed by the revival and proliferation of philosophical and historical skepticism. While philosophical skeptics are often credited with ushering in modernity by providing effective critiques of traditional intellectual authorities, their opponents played an equal if not more important role in shaping the debates of the Enlightenment and formulating new criteria of certainty. By looking at the way in which thinkers in France, England, and the Netherlands attempted either to preserve or to construct anew the foundations of their epistemological and ontological systems, my dissertation sheds light on how these orthodox sources impelled intellectual change.
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