Article
Samuel Johnson, Scepticism, and Biography
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-1989
Disciplines
Abstract
Johnson's sceptical approach to biography is a dialectic by which Johnson engages the reader in testing the limits of biographical inference. This biographical scepticism derives from the scientific epistemologies of Locke and Bacon, the writings of Pierre Bayle, and the "constructive scepticism" of the seventeenth-century Christian apologists.
DOI
10.1353/bio.2010.0544
Citation Information
Martin Maner. "Samuel Johnson, Scepticism, and Biography" Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Vol. 12 Iss. 4 (1989) p. 302 - 319 ISSN: 0162-4962 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/martin_maner/1/
Copyright © 1989 by the University of Hawaii Press.