Philosophy in History: Essays in the Historiography of PhilosophyRichard Rorty, Jerome B. Schneewind, Quentin Skinner The sixteen essays in this volume confront the current debate about the relationship between philosophy and its history. On the one hand intellectual historians commonly accuse philosophers of writing bad - anachronistic - history of philosophy, and on the other, philosophers have accused intellectual historians of writing bad - antiquarian - history of philosophy. The essays here address this controversy and ask what purpose the history of philosophy should serve. Part I contains more purely theoretical and methodological discussion, of such questions as whether there are 'timeless' philosophical problems, whether the issues of one epoch are commensurable with those of another, and what style is appropriate to the historiography of the subject. The essays in Part II consider a number of case-histories. They present important revisionist scholarship and original contributions on topics drawn from ancient, early modern and more recent philosophy. All the essays have been specially commissioned, and the contributors include many of the leading figures in the field. The volume as a whole will be of vital interest to everyone concerned with the study of philosophy and of its history. |
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Contents
a question | 13 |
four genres | 49 |
4 | 77 |
IAN HACKING Five parables | 103 |
7 | 111 |
Descartes Spinoza Leibniz Locke Berkeley Hume Kant | 125 |
WOLF LEPENIES Interesting questions in the history | 141 |
8 | 173 |
12 | 229 |
MICHAEL FREDE The sceptics two kinds of assent | 255 |
JOHN DUNN The concept of trust in the politics | 279 |
influence | 303 |
the early years | 329 |
IS THOMAS BALDWIN Moores rejection of idealism | 357 |
PETER HYLTON The nature of the proposition and | 375 |
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Aenesidemus akrasia analytic philosophy argue argument Aristotle Begriffsschrift belief Berkeley canon Carneades century claim classical sceptic concepts concern contemporary context course Descartes disciplines discussion distinction Divine Corporation doctrine dogmatic scepticism doxography epistemological essay ethics example existence explanation external fact formulation Frege G. E. Moore Gadamer Hegel Heidegger historian history of philosophy human Hume Hume's Husserl idealism ideas important impression interest interpretation intuition issue judgment Kant Kant's Kantian kinds of assent knowledge Kuhn Leibniz liberty Locke Locke's logical form Machiavelli Malebranche mathematics matter means metaphysics mind Modern Philosophy Moore Moore's moral natural sciences negative liberty notion objects ordinary particular philos political position possible practice principle problems proposition Pyrrhonism question rational rational reconstructions reality reason reconstructions relation Russell Russell's scientific sense Sextus Sextus Empiricus social sociology Socrates things thought tion tradition transcendental true truth understanding withhold assent