Richard Popkin

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Richard Popkin

Philosophy

#1057

World Rank

#1995

Historical Rank

#447

USA Rank

Epistemology

#122

World Rank

#154

Historical Rank

#60

USA Rank

Logic

#2032

World Rank

#2928

Historical Rank

#529

USA Rank

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Richard Popkin's Degrees

• PhD Philosophy Columbia University

Why Is Richard Popkin Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Richard Henry Popkin 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.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Richard Popkin?

Richard Popkin is affiliated with the following schools:

• Washington University in St. Louis
• University of California, Berkeley
• Emory University
• University of California, San Diego
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of Iowa
• Columbia University
• University of Connecticut
• Brandeis University
• Duke University