📚 Skepticism

Books with skepticism on their catalogue record, first published between 1656 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject skepticism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,596 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Case for Christ-Japanese	Lee Strobel	1656	33
	Scepticism and animal faith	George Santayana	1923	13
	Sceptical essays	Bertrand Russell	1928	12
	Scepticism and Naturalism	P. F. Strawson	2005	12
	Scepticism	Neil Gascoigne	2002	10
	Infidelity	Pearson, Thomas	1854	9
	The anatomy of negation	Edgar Saltus	1886	9
	Why people believe weird things	Michael Shermer	1997	9
	The skeptics of the Italian renaissance	Owen, John	1893	8
	Sur les Cimes du Desespoir	Emil Cioran	1990	8
	The eclipse of faith; or A visit to a religious sceptic	Rogers, Henry	1853	7
	The new inquisition	Robert Anton Wilson	1986	7
	Wittgenstein and Scepticism	Denis McManus	2003	7
	The miracles of unbelief	Frank Ballard	1900	6
	Religion and the modern mind	W. T. Stace	1952	6
	The history of scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes	Richard Henry Popkin	1960	6
	Pyrrōneioi hypotypōseis	Sextus Empiricus.	1968	6
	Reason and scepticism	Michael A. Slote	1970	6
	Kritik der zynischen Vernunft	Peter Sloterdijk	1983	6
	The skeptic disposition in contemporary criticism	Eugene Goodheart	1984	6
	Doubt and the demands of democratic citizenship	David R. Hiley	2006	6
	Reason for God Discussion Guide	Zondervan Staff	2010	6
	Varieties of Skepticism	James Conant	2014	6
	The triumph of infidelity	Dwight, Timothy	1788	5
	Philosophical skepticism	Charles Landesman	2002	5
	Scepticism comes alive	Bryan Frances	2005	5
	Oughts and thoughts	Anandi Hattiangadi	2007	5
	Disbelief 101	S. C. Hitchcock	2009	5
	Why Statues Weep	Wendy M. Grossman	2017	5
	Calling Bullshit	Carl T. Bergstrom	2020	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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