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Dec 2016
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Anthony Gottlieb on Pierre Bayle

EDMONDS AND WARBURTON
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Pierre Bayle was one of the best-known philosophers in the Eighteenth Century, but his work is now rarely studied. Anthony Gottlieb, author of The Dream of Enlightenment, argues that he should be better known, particularly his work on toleration and on scepticism. 

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