A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Skepticism
Early works
Miscellaneous
Early works
Agrippa, Cornelius. De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum. Antwerp, 1530.
_____. Of the Vanitie and Uncertaintie of Artes and Sciences. Trans. J. Sanford. London, 1569.
Diderot, Denis. Pensées philosophiques. 1746. (Condemned by the Parliament of Paris, 1746).
_____. Pensées philosophiques. Ed. R. Niklaus. (Textes Littéraires Français). Droz / Minard, 1950.
_____. Pensées Philosophiques. In Diderot, Œuvres philosophiques. Ed. P. Vernière. (Classiques Garnier). 1961.
_____. Pensées philosophiques. Lettre sur les aveugles. Suite de l'Apologie de l'abbé de Prades. (Les Classiques du Peuple: Diderot – Œuvres Choisies, 1). Paris: Editions Sociales, c. 1962.
_____. Pensées philosophiques. In Diderot, Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville. Pensées Philosophiques. Lettre sur les aveugles. Ed. Antoine Adam. (GF 252). Paris: Garnier Flammarion, 1972. 1995. 31-60.*
_____. Addition aux Pensées philosophiques. 1762.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Montaigne, or The Skeptic." In Emerson, Essays. London: Dent. New York: Dutton, 1906.*
Feijoo, Benito Jerónimo (Fray). "Escepticismo filosófico." From Teatro Crítico Universal, vol. 3. In Feijoo, Antología popular. Ed. Eduardo Blanco-Amor. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Galicia, 1966. 62-64.*
Glanvill, Joseph. The Vanity of Dogmatizing. Treatise on scepticism. 1661.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. System der Wissenschaft von Ge. Wilh. Fr. Hegel (…) Erster Theil, die Phänomenologie des Geistes. Bamberg and Würzburg: bey Joseph Anton Goebhardt, 1807.* (Consciousness; Self-Consciousness; Phenomena; Senses; Perception; Things; Illusion; Mastery; Serfdom; Stoicism; Skepticism; Unhappiness; Physiognomy; Phrenology; Pleasure; Necessity; Feelings; Conceit; Virtue; Spirit, Ethics; Gender; Divinity; Alienation; Culture; Faith, Enlightenment; Freedom; Morality; Religion; Art; Knowledge; Science).
_____. Die Phänomenologie des Geistes. Ed. Georg Lasson. 1928.
_____. Phänomenologie des Geistes. 5th ed. Ed. J. Hoffmeister. Hamburg: Meiner, 1952.
_____. Phänomenologie des Geistes. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1977.
_____. System der Wissenschaft. Erster Teil, die Phänomenologie des Geistes. Bamberg and Würzburg 1807. Online ed. of text from Projekt Gutenberg. HTML-marking: Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.
http://www.marxists.org/deutsch/philosophie/hegel/phaenom/
2011
_____. The Phenomenology of Mind. Translated by J. B. Baillie. 2d ed. London: Allen and Unwin, 1931.
_____. The Phenomenology of Mind. Trans. and introd. J. B. Baillie. 2nd ed., rev. London: Allen, 1964.
_____. Phenomenology of Spirit. Trans. A. V. Miller. Ed. J. N. Findlay. New York: Oxford UP; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.*
_____. Preface to Phenomenology of the Spirit. In Deconstruction in Context. Ed. Mark C. Taylor. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986. 67-97.*
_____. From Phenomenology of Spirit. (§§178-96, Master-Slave Dialectic). In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al. New York: Norton, 2001.*
_____. Phénoménologie de l'esprit. Trans. J. Hyppolite. Paris: Aubier, 1934.
_____. Phénomenologie de l'esprit. Trans. Jean Hyppolite. Vol. 1. Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1939.
_____. La Phénoménologie de l'Esprit. Trans. Jean Hyppolite. (Philosophie de l'Esprit). Vol. 1. Paris: Aubier, Éditions Montaigne, 1939. Online at Scribd (Shahla Osanloo)
http://es.scribd.com/doc/56022310/Hegel-La-Phenomenologie-De-L-esprit-t1
2012
_____. La Phénoménologie de l'Esprit. Trans. Jean Hyppolite. Vol. 2. Paris: Aubier, 1941. Online at Scribd (DanyRodier) 9 Nov. 2011.*
http://es.scribd.com/doc/64529923/Hegel-La-Phenomenologie-de-l-esprit-t-2-Hyppolite-1941
2012
_____. "La Phénoménologie de l'Esprit." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 18 May 2012.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/la-phenomenologie-de-lesprit-hegel.html
2012
_____. Fenomenología del espíritu. Trans. Wenceslao Roces. México: FCE, 1981.
_____. Fenomenología del espíritu. Trans. Wenceslao Roces. Introd. Ignasi Roviró Alemany. (Biblioteca de los grandes pensadores). Barcelona: RBA, 2004.*
_____. Fenomenología del Espíritu. Trans. Joaquín Chamorro Mielke. Introd. Volker Rühle. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Hegel, I). Madrid: Gredos, 2010. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2014.*
Hume, David. "The Sceptic." In Hume, Selected Essays. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993. 95-113.*
Martínez, Martín. "Si los animales tienen alma." From Filosofía escéptica. 1730. In El ensayo español, 2: El siglo XVIII. Ed. Francisco Sánchez Blanco. Barcelona: Crítica, 1998. 83-99.*
Montaigne, Michel de. Apologie de Raymond Sebond. 1578.
_____. "Apologie de Raimond Sebond." In Essais II. (Folio). 138-351.*
_____. "Apology for Raymond Sebond." In Complete Essays. Trans. Donald M. Frame. Stanford (CA): Stanford UP, 1948.
_____. An Apology of Raymond Sebond. Selection. In Hamlet. Ed. Cyrus Hoy. 2nd ed. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 1992.
_____. "II.xii. Apología de Raimundo Sabunde." In Montaigne, Ensayos completos. Madrid: Cátedra, 2003. 2010. 443-603.*
_____. Essais. 2 vols. Bordeaux, 1580. 2nd ed. Paris, 1588. 3rd ed. 1595.
_____. Ensayos completos. Trans. Almudena Montojo. Introd., notes, and trans of the sonnets by La Boétie by Alvaro Muñoz Robledano. (Bibliotheca Avrea). 5th ed. Madrid: Cátedra, 2003. 5th ed. 2010.*
Ralegh, Walter. Sceptic, or Speculation. London, 1651.
_____. Sceptic. In Raleigh, Works. Ed. Oldys and Birch. Oxford, 1829. Vol. 8.
Sánchez, Francisco. De multum nobile et prima, universali scientia quod quod nihil scitur. 1576. Lugduni: apud Ant. Gryphium, 1581. (a.k.a. Quod nihil scitur).
_____. Que nada se sabe. (Colección Austral). Madrid: Espasa Clape, 1991.
Sextus Empiricus. Delineations of Pyrrhonism (or Outlines of Pyrrhonism). (Scepticism).
_____. Adversus Mathematicos.
_____. Contra los profesores: Libros I-VI. Introd, trans. and notes by Jorge Bergua Cavero. (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 239). Madrid. Gredos, 1997.* (Trans. of Adversus mathematicos).
Voltaire. "Diálogo del incrédulo y del creyente." In Voltaire, Opúsculos. Cuentos. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Voltaire, II). Madrid: Gredos, 2010. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA, 2014. 71-80.*
Miscellaneous
Asigan. "¿Qué buscan los escépticos?" Paranormalidades 9 June 2007.*
http://paranormalidades.blogspot.com.es/2007/06/qu-buscan-los-escpticos.html
2017
Belda Martínez, Josué. "Por fin, ¿qué es el escepticismo?" In Belda, Paranormalidades 11 Sept. 2006.
http://paranormalidades.blogspot.com/2006/09/por-fin-qu-es-el-escepticismo.html
2006-09-16
Bradshaw, Graham. Shakespeare's Skepticism. Brighton: Harvester, 1987; Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989.
Butcharov, Panayot. Skepticism about the External World. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.
Cascardi, Anthony J. "Skepticism and Deconstruction." Philosophy and Literature 8 (1984): 1-14.
Carroll, Robert Todd. The Skeptic's Dictionary. Website.
2005-12-04
Cascardi, Anthony J. "Skepticism and Deconstruction." Philosophy and Literature 8 (1984): 1-14.
Cavell, Stanley. The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality and Tragedy. New York: Oxford UP, 1979. (Part 4: "Skepticism and the Problem of Others").
_____. The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
_____. In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.
Clark, Stuart. "Seemings: Philosophical Scepticism." In Clark, Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. 266-99.*
Cockshut, A. O. J. The Unbelievers: English Agnostic Thought, 1840-90. London, 1964.
Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design. New York, 1987.* (Royal Society of Literature Award).
_____. The Blind Watchmaker. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988.*
_____. El relojero ciego. Barcelona: Labor, 1986.
_____. El relojero ciego. Barcelona: RBA.
_____. "Explaining the Very Improbable." From The Blind Watchmaker. In Darwin: Texts. Commentary. Ed. Philip Appleman. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 2001. 301-04.*
_____. [The Argument from Personal Incredulity.] From Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker. New York, 1987. In Darwin: Texts. Commentary. Ed. Philip Appleman. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 2001. 577-80.*
_____. Climbing Mount Improbable. New York: Norton, 1996. (Evolution).
_____. Climbing Mount Improbable. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997.
_____. The God Delusion.
_____. El espejismo de Dios.
Eslava Galán, Juan. La Biblia contada para escépticos. 2020.
García del Cañuelo, Luis, and Luis Marcelino Pereira. "Que la superstición está entre nosotros más extendida que la impiedad." From El Censor. 1781-1787. In El ensayo español, 2: El siglo XVIII. Ed. Francisco Sánchez Blanco. Barcelona: Crítica, 1998. 272-78.*
García Landa, José Ángel. "Que se sueñen inmortales." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 5 June 2010.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2010/06/que-se-suenen-inmortales.html
2010
_____. "Que se sueñen inmortales: Unamuno, doblemente escéptico." Ibercampus (Vanity Fea) 4 June 2020.*
https://www.ibercampus.es/que-se-suenen-inmortales-39684.htm
2020
_____. "Mind at the End of Its Tether." (H.G. Wells). In García Landa, Vanity Fea 19 Nov. 2012.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/mind-at-end-of-its-tether.html
2012
_____. "La verdadera religión de Montaigne… y de Moisés." Vanity Fea 29 Aug. 2017.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2017/08/la-verdadera-religion-de-montaigne-y-de.html
2017
_____. "Dialéctica de la Religión y la Ilustración." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 16 March 2022.*
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2022/03/dialectica-de-la-religion-y-la.html
2022
Gardner, Martin. On the Wild Side. Buffalo (NY): Prometheus Books, 1992. (Pseudoscience; Parapsychology, vs. John Rhine; vs. Wilhelm Reich; Vs. Earth as organism., vs. Reagan and astrology; vs. telepreachers; vs. spiritism, vs. Biblical literalism; Science and Christianity).
_____. Extravagancias y disparates. Prologue by Vladimir de Semir. Trans. Jordi Fibla. (Campo de Agramante – Libros para la Controversia). Barcelona: Martínez Roca - Alcor, 1993.*
Gaylor, Annie Laure, ed. Women without Superstition. Madison, Wisconsin, 1997.
Gell-Mann, Murray. The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. 1994.
_____. El quark y el jaguar: Aventuras en lo simple y lo complejo. Trans. Ambrosio García and Romualdo Pastor. (Metatemas, 38). Barcelona: Tusquets, 1995. 2nd. ed. 1995. 3rd ed. 1996. 4th ed. 2003.*
Gervais, Will. "Is Religion Rooted in Childhod Gullibility?" OnlySky 22 Aug. 2022.*
https://onlysky.media/wgervais/is-religion-rooted-in-childhood-gullibility/
2022
Goodheart, Eugene. The Skeptic Disposition in Contemporary Criticism. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1985.
Gould, Stephen Jay. "El poder positivo del escepticismo." In Shermer, Por qué creemos en cosas raras: Pseudociencia, superstición y otras confusiones de nuestro tiempo. Barcelona: Alba, 2008. 13-18.*
Long, A. A. "XIX. Filosofía postaristotélica – (1). La Academia tardía y el Perípato (Liceo). (2) Epicuro y Filodemo. (3) La estoa y los escritores estoicos. (4) Escépticos, cínicos y otros filósofos postaristotélicos." In Historia de la Literatura Clásica (Cambridge University), I: Literatura Griega. Ed. P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox. Madrid: Gredos, 1990. 684-89.*
Montaigne, Michel de. Apologie de Raymond Sebond. 1578.
_____. "Apologie de Raimond Sebond." In Essais II. (Folio). 138-351.*
_____. "Apology for Raymond Sebond." In Complete Essays. Trans. Donald M. Frame. Stanford (CA): Stanford UP, 1948.
_____. An Apology of Raymond Sebond. Selection. In Hamlet. Ed. Cyrus Hoy. 2nd ed. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 1992.
_____. "II.xii. Apología de Raimundo Sabunde." In Montaigne, Ensayos completos. Madrid: Cátedra, 2003. 2010. 443-603.*
Normandin, Sebastian. "Scientism and Skepticism: A Reply to Steven Pinker." Berfrois 12 Feb. 2015.*
http://www.berfrois.com/2015/02/sebastian-normandin-science-skepticism-steven-pinker/
2015
Norton, David Fate. Shaftesbury and the Two Scepticisms. Torino: Edizioni di'Filosofia, 1968.
Nuttall, A. D. "Stoics and Sceptics." In Nuttall, Shakespeare the Thinker. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007. 171-220.*
Parker, Fred. Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.
Popkin, Richard. History of Skepticism from Erasmus to Descartes. Rev. ed. New York, 1964.
Pulos, C. E. "[The Role of Skepticism in Shelley's Thought]." From Pulos, The Deep Truth: a Study of Shelley's Skepticism. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1954. In Shelley's Poetry and Prose. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Sharon B. Powers. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 1977. 519-24.*
Rosenau, Pauline Marie. "Affirmatives and Skeptics." In The Fontana Postmodernism Reader. Ed. W. T. Anderson. London: HarperCollins-Fontana, 1996. 103-5.*
Ross, Stephen David. "Skepticism, Holism, and Inexhaustibility." Review of Metaphysics 35.3 (1982).
Russell, Bertrand. "Cínicos y escépticos." In Russell, Historia de la Filosofía Occidental, in Russell, Historia de la filosofía. Madrid: Aguilar, 1973.*
Santayana, George. Skepticism and Animal Faith. New York: Dover, 1955.
Schmid, Wolf. "23. Anton Cechov: Die Ereignisskepsis des Postrealisten." In Schmid, Mentale Ereignisse. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. 408-14.*
Shermer, Michael. "Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story." Satire. From Skeptic 6 (1998): 21. In Darwin: Texts. Commentary. Ed. Philip Appleman. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 2001. 625.
_____. Why People Believe Weird Things. 1997. 2nd ed. 2002.
_____. Por qué creemos en cosas raras: Pseudociencia, superstición y otras confusiones de nuestro tiempo. Prologue by Stephen Jay Gould. Trans. Amado Diéguez. (Trayectos, 103). Barcelona: Alba, 2008.* (I. Ciencia y escepticismo; II. Pseudociencia y superstición; III. Evolución y creacionismo; IV. Historia y pseudohistoria; V. De la esperanza nace lo eterno).
Stapledon, Olaf. "Morality, Scepticism and Theism." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society ns 44 (1943-44): 15-42.
Stein, Gordon, ed. The Encyclopedia of Unbelief. Buffalo (NY): Prometheus Books, 1985.
Stroud, Barry. (U of California, Berkeley). The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism. 1985.
Taylor, Talbot J. Mutual Misunderstanding: Skepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation. Durham (NC): Duke UP; London: Routledge, 1992.
Unamuno, Miguel de. "Escepticismo fanático." Salamanca, April 1908. In Unamuno, Ensayos. Prologue and notes by Bernardo G. de Candamo. 2 vols. 4th ed. Madrid: Aguilar, 1958.* (Vol. 2, "Con una antología epistolar comentada por Bernardo G. de Candamo). 7th ed., 1967. Rpt. 1970. 2.517-23.*
Watson, Peter. "25. La 'amenaza atea' y el surgimiento de la duda." In Watson, Ideas: Historia intelectual de la Humanidad. Barcelona: Crítica, 2006. 811-34.* (Montaigne, enlightenment, hobbes, Hume, Vanini).
_____. "35. Los enemigos de la cruz y del Corán: el fin del alma." In Watson, Ideas: Historia intelectual de la Humanidad. Barcelona: Crítica, 2006. (Strauss, Catholicism, Islam). *
Williams, Michael. Unnatural Doubts: Epistemological Realism and the Basis of Scepticism. Cambridge (MA): Blackwell, 1991.
Audio
Williams, Michael. "An Uncertain Skeptic: Richard Rorty and Philosophy as Epistemology." YouTube (Brad Younger) 18 May 2015.*
2015
Blogs
Skeptic Society. YouTube (Skeptic).*
https://www.youtube.com/@skepticmagazine
2024
Internet resources
ARP: Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico
2005
BitácorARP: El blog para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico
http://escepticos.blogalia.com/
2005-10-20
El Catoblepas: Revista crítica del presente
http://www.nodulo.org/ec/index.htm
2004-12-23
El Escéptico
El Escéptico Digital (ARP – Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico)
http://digital.el-esceptico.org/
2008
Homo Webensis. Blog.
http://www.homowebensis.com/index.php
2005-02-22
IncrEDulous (Edward Clint).
https://skepticink.com/incredulous/
2021
La Katana de Occam (Skepticism and SF blog).
http://escepticismo.blogalia.com/
2004-12-23
Magonia: Una ventana crítica al mundo del misterio. Blog. (Luis Alfonso Gámez)
2005-08-03
Mihteriohdelasiensia. Blog on skepticism.
http://mihteriohdelasiensia.blogspot.com/
2006-10-06
Intellectuality, Logic & Science. 164 video list. YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU11zY8UVDU&list=PL3B2AFD3EED841947
2013
Skeptic. Blog. (Michael Shermer)
2009
Journals
The Daily Skeptic.*
2021
El escéptico (2011).*
Free Inquirer.
OnlySky.*
2022
Skeptic
Vol. 4.3 (1996).
2020
The Skeptical Inquirer
Literature
Rochester (John Wilmot, Earl of). "A Satyr against Reason and Mankind." Poem. 1679. (Partly based on Boileau's eight satire).
_____. "A Satyr against Mankind." From Poems on Several Occasions, 1705. In The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. Ed. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. Rpt. 1938, 1942, 1946. 939-41.*
_____. "Satyr." ("Were I (who to my cost already am...).)" 1679. In Eighteenth-Century English Poetry: The Annotated Anthology. Ed. Nalini Jain and John Richardson. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994. 23-37.*
_____. "A Satyr against Reason and Mankind." Ed. Jack Lynch. (Rutgers U).
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/mankind.html
2011 DISCONTINUED 2019
_____. "A Satyr against Reason and Mankind." Ed. Jack Lynch. Online at Jack Lynch.*
http://jacklynch.net/Texts/mankind.html
2019
_____. "A Satyre against Reason and Mankind." In John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.*
http://www.ealasaid.com/fan/rochester/satire.html
2020
Savater, Fernando. El jardín de las dudas. Novel. 1993. (Finalista Premio Planeta).
Societies and Institutions
ARP: Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico
2005
Skeptic Society. YouTube (Skeptic).*
https://www.youtube.com/@skepticmagazine
2024
Video
Corvino, John. "Coming Out Skeptical." Lecture at Skepticon 3 (2010). YouTube (HamboneProductions) 27 Dec. 2010.*
2014
Dennett, Daniel. "Imagine No Religion 3: Daniel Dennett." Video. YouTube (FloatingJetsam) 14 June 2013.* (Transparency, Perception, arms races; memetics and social cells, Tea ceremony, debutante cotillons, Ponzi schemes, churches, priests, seminaries, skepticism, mutual knowledge, public opinion)
2021
François, Arnaud. "Scepticisme et pessimisme: Le cas Schopenhauer." Video lecture (Conference on Scepticisme et pensée morale). YouTube (École Normale Supérieure) 13 May 2016.*
2018
Pinker, Steven, and Niall Ferguson. "Steven Pinker with Niall Ferguson at LiveTalks Los Angeles." Video. YouTube (LiveTalksLA) 14 Oct. 2021.* (On Rationality: What It Is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why It Matters - Conspiracy theories, beliefs, biases, ideology, skepticism, critical thinking).
2021
Punset, Eduard, et al. "¿Aún creyendo cosas extrañas?" (REDES 378). YouTube (Redes, Divulgación y Cultura) 11 Sept. 2013.*
2016
Roderick, Rick. "Rick Roderick on Nietzsche as Master of Suspicion & Immoralist." (Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition, 3). YouTube (The Partially Examined Life) 27 Jan. 2012.*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Ad21jZt_k
2016
