Doubt and Its Names
Category
FP7 Project with U.S. partner
Short name and number
DoubtAndItsNames (237133)
Area
No theme specific
Description
Its chief aim is produce a history of Renaissance doubt by comparing the professional philosophers' treatment of doubt to a wider range of contemporary sceptical attitudes. It will single out a select group of concepts of sceptical interest such as doubt, uncertainty, conjecture, and so on from well-known Renaissance sources that belong to an eminently conjectural discipline such as philology, or more precisely textual criticism.
Participating Countries
United Kingdom and United States.
Name of US Partner
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Contact
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (UK) / NIVEN Peter