Samuel Johnson, Scepticism, and Biography

Martin Maner

doi:10.1353/bio.2010.0544

Samuel Johnson, Scepticism, and Biography

Martin Maner

Wright State University

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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.

Original language	American English
Journal	Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Volume	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2010.0544
State	Published - Oct 1 1989

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