The intellectual crisis of the Reformation

The revival of Greek scepticism in the 16th century

Michel de Montaigne and the 'nouveaux Pyrrhoniens'

The influence of the new Pyrrhonism

The libertins érudits

The counter-attack begins

Constructive or mitigated scepticism

Herbert of Cherbury and Jean de Silhon

Descartes : conqueror of scepticism

Descartes : sceptique malgré lui

Isaac La Peyrère and the beginning of religious scepticism

Spinoza's scepticism and anti-scepticism.