
Lecture 05: Populist Skepticism: Paine and Watson
This lecture begins the account of the sceptics who appealed to the common working man, with the main focus of this first lecture on Thomas...
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The Great Debated is a series of fifteen lectures by Timothy McGrew, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University. The 'Great Debate' is a convenient...

This lecture begins the account of the sceptics who appealed to the common working man, with the main focus of this first lecture on Thomas...

This second and final lecture on urbane scepticism deals with the work of the Utilitarian John Stuart Mill and the English poet Matthew Arno...

Urbane scepticism, an extension of English Deism, is presented in this lecture mostly through the lens of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall o...

The focus of this lecture is continental scepticism, primarily a French movement influenced by Deism, and its main proponents: Voltaire and...

This lecture introduces the course and the seven sceptical challenges of the period: continental, urbane, populist, scholarly, transcendenta...