Richard Popkin
Richard Popkin | |
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| Born | December 27, 1923 Manhattan, New York |
| Died | April 14, 2005 (aged 81) Los Angeles, California |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Scepticism, Pyrrhonian skepticism |
| Main interests | History of philosophy, Seventeenth century, Eighteenth century, Jewish philosophers, Jewish philosophy, millenarianism and messianism |
| Notable ideas | Influence of Pyrrhonian skepticism on Western philosophy |
Richard Henry Popkin (December 27, 1923 – April 14, 2005) was an American academic philosopher who specialized in the history of enlightenment philosophy and early modern anti-dogmatism. His 1960 work The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes introduced one previously unrecognized influence on Western thought in the seventeenth century, the Pyrrhonian Scepticism of Sextus Empiricus. Popkin also was an internationally acclaimed scholar on Christian millenarianism and Jewish messianism.