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"No long time of expectation": Hume's religious scepticism and the apocalypse.- Religious scepticism and China.- The two scepticisms of the Savoyard vicar.- John Wolley (ca. 1530-1596) and the first Latin translation of Sextus Empiricus, adversus logicos I.- Excluding sceptics; the case of Thomas White, 1593-1676.- Montaigne on the art of judgment: the trial of Montaigne.- Intellectual autobiography: warts and all.- Publications of Richard H. Popkin, 1950-1986 inclusive.

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No long time of expectation: Hume's religious scepticism and the apocalypse.- Religious scepticism and China.- The two scepticisms of the Savoyard vicar.- John Wolley (ca. 15301596) and the first Latin translation of Sextus Empiricus, adversus logicos I.- Excluding sceptics; the case of Thomas White, 15931676.- Montaigne on the art of judgment: the trial of Montaigne.- Intellectual autobiography: warts and all.- Publications of Richard H. Popkin, 19501986 inclusive.