Richard Popkin

Tags: Philosopher.

Richard Henry Popkin (December 27 1923 – April 14 2005) was an 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 previously unrecognised influence on Western thought in the seventeenth century the Pyrrhonian Scepticism of Sextus Empiricus. Popkin also was an internationally acclaimed scholar on Jewish and Christian millenarianism and messianism.

birth date

1923-12-27

birth place

Manhattan

death date

2005-04-14

death place

California, Los Angeles

era

20th-century philosophy

influenced

Luciano Floridi

influenced by

Baruch Spinoza, René Descartes, Pierre Bayle

main interest

Jewish philosophy, History of philosophy, Millenarianism, Messianism, List of Jewish scientists and philosophers

notableIdea

Pyrrhonism

philosophicalSchool

Skepticism, Pyrrhonism