Author: Paul Edwards
Paul Edwards teaches philosophy at Brooklyn College and the New School for Social Research. He is the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the author and editor of numerous books and articles. His monograph Heidegger and Death will be published in a German translation later this year. Professor Edwards was awarded the Butler Silver Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Philosophy by Columbia University in 1979.
Pierre Bayle (1647–1706)
Pierre Bayle was one of the most famous and thoroughgoing skeptics of his day. This fact is difficult to reconcile with his professed Calvinism, the sincerity of which is anybody’s guess. Some commentators maintain that it was completely genuine. Frederick the Great and Voltaire thought that it was a cover so that Bayle could live …