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Date of Birth
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27-December-1923
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Place of Birth
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Manhattan
(New York City, New York, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Richard H. Popkin, Richard Henry Popkin
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Profession
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Philosopher
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Richard Henry Popkin 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 previously unrecognised influence on Western thought in the seventeenth century, the Pyrrhonian Scepticism of Sextus Empiricus. Popkin also was an internationally acclaimed scholar on Jewish and Christian millenarianism and messianism.
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