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Richard Henry Popkin (December 27, 1923 – April 14, 2005) was an American 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 [ 2 ] introduced one previously unrecognized influence on Western thought in the ...
Richard H. Popkin (1992), The Third Force in Seventeenth-century Thought, Ch. 15 The Scepticism of Joseph Glanvill; Ryan Stark, Rhetoric, Science and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009), 30–46.
The Third Force was the name given to a number of attempts by Northern Irish politician Ian Paisley, then leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), to create an Ulster loyalist 'defensive militia'. [citation needed] The best known example was the Third Force rallies on 1 April 1981.
The eldest son of Georg Ritschel, a Bohemian, by Gertrude, his wife, he was born at Deutsch Kahn in Bohemia (now Luční Chvojno, part of Velké Chvojno, Czech Republic) on 13 February 1616.
Vol. 3: Force, James E. and Popkin, Richard H. (eds.). The Millenarian Turn: Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics and Everyday Anglo-American Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries , 2001.
Richard H. Popkin (1990) applies the term to the "spiritual physics" of Cambridge Platonist Henry More and his pupil and collaborator Lady Anne Conway, [2] who enthusiastically accepted the new science, but rejected the various forms of materialist mechanism proposed by Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza to buttress it, [3] as these, More and Conway ...
Richard Russo is back with the third book in his “Fool” series, and while it feels climactic, the author hasn’t formally said if it officially ends the trilogy he began in 1993 with ...
Third Force (CIA), a CIA program instituted during the Korean War to destabilise China. Perhaps best known for the John T. Downey and Richard Fecteau shootdown. Also known as Operation Tropic. Third Force (France), a French political coalition during the Fourth Republic; Third Force (Hong Kong), a political party in Hong Kong, supportive of China