Richard Popkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Popkin

academic philosopher

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1923

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 14-Apr-2005

Profession: historian, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Richard Henry Popkin (December 27, 1923 – April 14, 2005) was an 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.