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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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
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...
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5 episodesLecture 04: Urbane Skepticism: Mill and Arnold
This second and final lecture on urbane scepticism deals with the work of the Utilitarian John Stuart Mill and the English poet Matthew Arno...
Lecture 03: Urbane Skepticism: Gibbon vs. Watson
Urbane scepticism, an extension of English Deism, is presented in this lecture mostly through the lens of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall o...
Lecture 02: Continental Skepticism
The focus of this lecture is continental scepticism, primarily a French movement influenced by Deism, and its main proponents: Voltaire and...
Lecture 01: Introduction and Course Overview
This lecture introduces the course and the seven sceptical challenges of the period: continental, urbane, populist, scholarly, transcendenta...