Chapter 2 Erudite libertines
2.1 Pintard's Libertinage Érudit and Huet's place in the movement.
2.2 A man of letters: Hellenist and Biblical scholar, translator, poet, literary theorist, novelist, and character
2.3 Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655)
2.4 François de La Mothe Le Vayer (1588-1672)
2.5 Montaigne and Charron
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Chapter 3 Traité philosophique de la faiblesse de l'esprit humain: first book of Huet's planned Alnetanae Quaestiones in five books 3.1 Huet's philosophical project3.2 The originally planned Alnetanae Quaestiones
3.3 Huet's fictional interlocutors in planned AQ
3.3.1 Gautruche: original interlocutor of books III-V of planned AQ (books I-III of published AQ)
3.3.2 Le Valois: original interlocutor of book II of planned AQ (published Censura)3.3.3 Du Hamel: original interlocutor of book I of planned AQ (published Traité)
3.4 Synthesis of the major modifications in the Latin manuscripts
3.4.1 Major voluntary modifications
3.4.2 Major modifications to hide authorship
3.4.3 Major modifications to address criticisms
3.5 The history of the manuscripts of the Traité after seclusion from AQ3.6 Conclusions
BibliographyChapter 4 From Cartesian physics to Cartesian skepticism against Cartesian metaphysics
4.1 The relevance of Descartes in Huet's intellectual life
4.2 The first reception
4.3 Huet as a mitigated Cartesian natural philosopher
4.4 Descartes's attack on classic scholarship
4.5 Censura: a skeptical attack on Descartes's metaphysics
4.6 The reason-faith distinction
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Chapter 5 French Skeptics in the second half of 17th century5.1 Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
5.1.1 Origenis5.1.2 Demonstratio
5.1.3 Traité Philosophique and Concordia
5.2 Simon Foucher (1644-1696)
5.3 Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)
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Chapter 6 Conclusion
Appendix - Chronological table of Huet's life, works (marked in bold) and selected personal philosophical library