Samuel Johnson, Scepticism, and Biography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3805526 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Maner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 302-319 |
| Publication date | 1989-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2010.0544 |
| OpenAlex | W2001142705 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Johnson's sceptical approach to biography is a dialectic by which Johnson engages the reader in testing the limits of biographical inference. This biographical scepticism derives from the scientific epistemologies of Locke and Bacon, the writings of Pierre Bayle, and the "constructive scepticism" of the seventeenth-century Christian apologists
Art · Art history · Biography · Constructive · Dialectic · Epistemology · Inference · Literature · Skepticism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Comment on Samuel Johnson and “Natural Law”
Scattered Atoms of Probability
Contexts of Dryden's Thought
Samuel Johnson and the New Science
Response to Mr. Stanlis's Comment
Samuel Johnson and “Natural Law”
Probability and certainty in seventeenth-century England
Probability and Literary Form
| Highly cited | No |
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