Richard H Popkin

Biographic Data

ID	953796
NAME	Richard H Popkin
GIVEN NAMES	Richard H
FAMILY NAME	Popkin
SIGNATURE	POPKIN R H
AFFILIATIONS	Washington University in St. Louis
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	86
TOTAL CITATIONS	55
AUTHOR COUNT	70
EDITOR COUNT	16
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1943
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2023
H-INDEX	4

History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza
Richard H PopkinBOOKHistory of Scepticism from…2023
Scepticism in the Enlightenment
Ezequiel de Olaso, R H Popkin et al.BOOKScepticism in the Enlightenment2013
The legacies of Richard Popkin
Jeremy D Popkin, Richard H PopkinBOOKThe legacies of Richard Popkin2008
"Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005) transformed the study of the history of philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. His History of Scepticism and his many other publications demonstrated the centrality of the problem of skepticism in the development of modern thought, the intimate connections between philosophy and religion, and the importance of contacts between Jewish and Christian thinkers. In this volume, scholars from around the w…
Scepticism, priestcraft, and toleration
Open AccessRichard H Popkin, Mark GoldieCHAPTERThe Cambridge history of…2006
Scepticism, Judaism, and the natural history of religion Philosophical scepticism, the questioning of the adequacy of evidence to justify any view or belief, and the questioning of the criteria for deciding intellectual issues in any domain whatsoever, reached its high point in modern philosophy during the eighteenth century. At the beginning of the century the complete edition of Pierre Bayle’s Dictionnaire historique et critique (1702) appeared…
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy: Volume 1
Open AccessWerner Schneiders, Carl Henrik Koch et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of…2006
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Secret Conversions to Judaism in Early Modern Europe
Martin Mulsow, Richard H PopkinBOOKSecret Conversions to Judaism in…2004
Introduction, Martin Mulsow & Richard H. Popkin 1. George Buchanan, Crypto-Judaism, and the Critique of European Empire, Arthur Williamson 2. Can one be a True Christian and a Faithful Follower of the Law of Moses? The Answer of John Dury, Richard H. Popkin 3. Ich will dich nach Holland schicken ...: Amsterdam and the Reversion to Judaism of German-Jewish Converts, Elisheva Carlebach 4. Judaizing in the Seventeenth Century: Francis Mercury van He…
The Sabbatian Movement in Turkey (1703-1708) and Reverberations in Northern Europe
Richard H Popkin, Stephanie ChasinARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2004
T H E J E W I S H QUA R T E R LY RE V I E W, Vol. 94, No. 2 (Spring 2004) 300–317 The Sabbatian Movement in Turkey (1703–1708) and Reverberations in Northern Europe RICHARD H. P OPKIN AND STEPHANIE CHASIN WE DISCUSS IN THIS ESSAY some hitherto unknown documents that recently came to our attention. Our investigation started from a simple examination as to whether Gershom Scholem had used Jacques Basnage ’s Histoire des Juifs in his book on Sabbata…
The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle revised and expanded edition
Richard H PopkinBOOKThe History of Scepticism2003
This is the third edition of a classic book first published in 1960, which has sold thousands of copies in two paperback edition and has been translated into several foreign languages. Popkin’s work has generated innumerable citations, and remains a valuable stimulus to current historical research. In this updated version, he has revised and expanded throughout, and has added three new chapters, one on Savonarola, one on Henry More and Ralph Cudw…
Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture
Open AccessJames E Force, Richard H PopkinBOOKMillenarianism and Messianism in…2001
Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture Volume IV
Open AccessJohn Christian Laursen, Richard H PopkinBOOKMillenarianism and Messianism in…2001
Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture: Jewish Messianism in the Early Modern World
Open AccessMatt D Goldish, Richard H PopkinBOOKMillenarianism and Messianism in…2001
The Abbé Grégoire and his World
Open AccessJeremy D Popkin, Richard H PopkinBOOKAbbé Grégoire and His World2000Cited by: 4
Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium
Clarke Garrett, David S Katz et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review2000
Newton and Religion
Open AccessJames E Force, Richard H PopkinBOOKNewton and Religion1999
Judaeo-Christian Intellectual Culture in the Seventeenth Century: A Celebration of the Library of Narcissus Marsh
Open AccessAllison P Coudert, Sarah Hutton et al.BOOKJudaeo-Christian Intellectual…1999
The Skeptical Tradition Around 1800
Open AccessJohan Zande, Richard H PopkinBOOKSkeptical Tradition Around 18001998
Brissot and Condorcet: Skeptical Philosophers
Richard H PopkinCHAPTERSkeptical Tradition Around 18001998
Sources of knowledge of Sextus Empiricus in Kant's time: A French translation of Sextus Empiricus from the Prussian academy, 1779
J C Laursen, Richard H PopkinARTICLEBritish Journal for the History…1998Cited by: 2References: 1
Etude de la premiere traduction francaise du traite de Sextus Empiricus «Contre les logiciens» publiee en 1779 par Jean de Castillon, membre de l'Academie des sciences de Prusse, a la demande de Frederic Le Grand. Apportant de precieux renseignements sur la politique philosophique du XVIII e siecle, cette traduction francaise pourrait etre la source de la connaissance de Sextus Empiricus pour Kant, dont on sait que la connaissance du scepticisme …
Reflections on the history of scepticism
Open AccessRichard H PopkinARTICLERevue de Synthèse1998
Suite a la journee R. Popkin organisee par le Centre Alexandre Koyre, le Centre d'etudes en rhetorique, philosophie et histoire des idees (CERPHI) et la Fondation Pour la Science- Centre international de synthese, en janvier 1997, l'A. presente, sous la forme d'un article inedit, quelques reflexions sur l'histoire du scepticisme issues de ses recherches en histoire de la philosophie et de ses multiples rencontres avec la pensee europeenne, lors d…
Scepticism in the Enlightenment
Richard H PopkinCHAPTERScepticism in the Enlightenment1997
Scepticism in the History of Philosophy
Open AccessRichard H PopkinBOOKScepticism in the History of…1996
Heterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free Thought in Early-Eighteenth-Century Europe: Studies on the Traité des Trois Imposteurs
Open AccessSilvia Berti, Françoise Charles-Daubert et al.BOOKHeterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free…1996
Prophecy and Scepticism in the sixteenth and seventeenth century
Richard H PopkinARTICLEBritish Journal for the History…1996
(1996). Prophecy and Scepticism in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. British Journal for the History of Philosophy: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-20.
David Levi, Anglo-Jewish Theologian
Richard H PopkinARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1996
In and out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany
Open AccessChristof Mauch, R Po‐chia Hsia et al.BOOKIn and Out of the Ghetto1995
During the 1920s much attention was paid to the history of Jews in Germany since the Enlightenment and the subject became popular again, with renewed emphasis, after 1945. Many historians were deeply committed to understanding and explaining the tragic path that led from the emancipation of the Jews to the Holocaust. For a long time, much less work was done on the history of Jews in Germany in earlier periods, particularly the period between the …

David Hume: His Pyrrhonism and His Critique of Pyrrhonism
Richard H PopkinARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1951Cited by: 12
Sources of Knowledge of Sextus Empiricus in Hume's Time
Richard H PopkinARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas1993Cited by: 11
In the excellent article by Leo Groarke and Graham Solomon, Some Sources for Hume's Account of Cause (JHI, 52 [1991], 645-63), the authors discuss ways in which David Hume could have known about Sextus's arguments. In addition to two main possibilities they descuss, the English publication of the complete text of Sextus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism in Thomas Stanley's very popularHistory ofPhilosophyin 1655-60 and reprinted in 1687; and the 1718 edit…
Pre-adamism in 19th century American thought: "Speculative biology" and racism
Open AccessRichard H PopkinARTICLEphiloSOPHIA1978Cited by: 10
The Abbé Grégoire and his World
Open AccessJeremy D Popkin, Richard H PopkinBOOKAbbé Grégoire and His World2000Cited by: 4
Joseph Glanvill: A Precursor of David Hume
Richard H PopkinARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas1953Cited by: 4
The Lost Tribes, the Caraites and the English Millenarians
Richard H PopkinARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies1986Cited by: 3
Le millenariste puritain John Dury (1596-1680) et ses amis en Angleterre et sur le continent. En 1648, il apprend que les Dix Tribus perdues sont en Amerique, selon un missionnaire anglais, Thomas Thorowgood, et un Juif, Antonio Montezinos dont Menasse ben Israel lui communique le manuscrit francais. Autre signe de la proximite du millenium : l'existence des Qaraites, ces protestants du Judaisme , information que Dury recoit de Johann Stephanus R…
The Skeptical Precursors of David Hume
Richard H PopkinARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1955Cited by: 3
Sources of knowledge of Sextus Empiricus in Kant's time: A French translation of Sextus Empiricus from the Prussian academy, 1779
J C Laursen, Richard H PopkinARTICLEBritish Journal for the History…1998Cited by: 2References: 1
Etude de la premiere traduction francaise du traite de Sextus Empiricus «Contre les logiciens» publiee en 1779 par Jean de Castillon, membre de l'Academie des sciences de Prusse, a la demande de Frederic Le Grand. Apportant de precieux renseignements sur la politique philosophique du XVIII e siecle, cette traduction francaise pourrait etre la source de la connaissance de Sextus Empiricus pour Kant, dont on sait que la connaissance du scepticisme …
Bishop Pierre‐Daniel Huet's remarks on Pascal
Jose R Maia Neto, Richard H PopkinARTICLEBritish Journal for the History…1995Cited by: 1
Predicting, prophecying, divining and foretelling from Nostradamus to Hume
Richard H PopkinARTICLEHistory of European Ideas1984Cited by: 1
(1984). Predicting, prophecying, divining and foretelling from Nostradamus to Hume. History of European Ideas: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 117-135
Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870
Richard H PopkinREVIEWThe American Historical Review1974Cited by: 1
From both Jewish and non-Jewish viewpoints, this study presents the developing interrelationship between Jews and their Gentile environment from 1770 to 1870. It covers the upheaval of the French Revolution, the loosening of bonds between church and state, and the ideas of the Enlightenment.
The Assassins
John Kaplan, Mark Lane et al.ARTICLEStanford Law Review1967Cited by: 1
The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes
A H Basson, Alec Basson et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1963Cited by: 1
Book Reviews Get access The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes. By Richard H. Popkin. (Assen: Van Gorcum & Co. 1960. Pp. xvii + 236. Price 18.50). A. H. Basson A. H. Basson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 51, April 1963, Pages 176–178, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217199 Published: 01 April 1963
The Development of the Philosophical Reputation of Joseph Glanvill
Richard H PopkinARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas1954Cited by: 1