Glanvill, Joseph G Philosophers

Joseph Glanvill, 1636-1680. Early Modern English philosopher whose arguments are at times critically skeptical, but in the case of his writings on witchcraft, highly credulous. He had many intellectual ties to his contemporaries, the Cambridge Platonists.

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• - Wikipedia article on this eccentric 17th-century thinker, with links to related articles.
  
• - Brief paper by Cindy Boyd, on the importance of Glanvill's Sadducismus Triumphatus to the anti-witch campaigns of the 17th century.
  
• - Brief entry noting his principal works.
  
• - Graphic images of this entire work by Glanvill, which is concerned with witchcraft.
  
• - Brief entry from the 2001 Columbia Encyclopedia.
  
  

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