Philosophy and Its History: Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy

This volume collects contributions from leading scholars of early modern philosophy from a wide variety of philosophical and geographic backgrounds. The distinguished contributors offer very different, competing approaches to the history of philosophy.

Many chapters articulate new, detailed methods of doing history of philosophy. These present conflicting visions of the history of philosophy as an autonomous sub-discipline of professional philosophy. Several other chapters offer new approaches to integrating history into one's philosophy by re-telling the history of recent philosophy. A number of chapters explore the relationship between history of philosophy and history of science.

Among the topics discussed and debated in the volume are: the status of the principle of charity; the nature of reading texts; the role of historiography within the history of philosophy; the nature of establishing proper context.

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Philosophy and Its History: Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy

This volume collects contributions from leading scholars of early modern philosophy from a wide variety of philosophical and geographic backgrounds. The distinguished contributors offer very different, competing approaches to the history of philosophy.

Many chapters articulate new, detailed methods of doing history of philosophy. These present conflicting visions of the history of philosophy as an autonomous sub-discipline of professional philosophy. Several other chapters offer new approaches to integrating history into one's philosophy by re-telling the history of recent philosophy. A number of chapters explore the relationship between history of philosophy and history of science.

Among the topics discussed and debated in the volume are: the status of the principle of charity; the nature of reading texts; the role of historiography within the history of philosophy; the nature of establishing proper context.

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Philosophy and Its History: Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy

Philosophy and Its History: Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy

Philosophy and Its History: Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy

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This volume collects contributions from leading scholars of early modern philosophy from a wide variety of philosophical and geographic backgrounds. The distinguished contributors offer very different, competing approaches to the history of philosophy.

Many chapters articulate new, detailed methods of doing history of philosophy. These present conflicting visions of the history of philosophy as an autonomous sub-discipline of professional philosophy. Several other chapters offer new approaches to integrating history into one's philosophy by re-telling the history of recent philosophy. A number of chapters explore the relationship between history of philosophy and history of science.

Among the topics discussed and debated in the volume are: the status of the principle of charity; the nature of reading texts; the role of historiography within the history of philosophy; the nature of establishing proper context.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199857166
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 07/05/2013
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mogens Lærke is Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS (UMR 5037, ENS de Lyon) and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.

Justin E. H. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VII — Denis Diderot.

Eric Schliesser is Bijzonder Onderzoeks Fond Research Professor and Associated Professor of philosophy and moral science at Ghent University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Mogens Lærke, Justin E.H. Smith, and Eric Schliesser

Chapter 1: The Anthropological Analogy and the Constitution of Historical Perspectivism
Mogens Lærke

Chapter 2: The History of Philosophy as Past and as Process
Justin E. H. Smith

Chapter 3 : Philosophy and Genealogy. Ways of writing history of philosophy.
Koen Vermeir

Chapter 4 : Understanding the Argument Through Then-Current Public Debates or My Detective Method of History of Philosophy
Ursula Goldenbaum

Chapter 5: The Contingency of Philosophical Problems
Joanne Waugh and Roger Ariew

Chapter 6 : Philosophical Problems in the History of Philosophy: What are They?
Leo Catana

Chapter 7: Philosophizing Historically/Historicizing Philosophy: Some Spinozistic Reflections
Julie R. Klein

Chapter 8 : Is the History of Philosophy a Family Affair? The Examples of Malebranche and Locke in the Cousinian School
Delphine Kolesnik-Antoine

Chapter 9 : The Taming of Philosophy
Michael Della Rocca

Chapter 10 : Philosophic Prophecy
Eric Schliesser

Chapter 11 : Philosophical Systems and their History
Alan Nelson

Chapter 12 : Charitable Interpretations and the Political Domestication of Spinoza,
or, Benedict in the Land of the Secular Imagination
Yitzhak Melamed

Chapter 13 : Mediating between Past and Present:
Descartes, Newton, and Contemporary Structural Realism
Mary Domski

Chapter 14 : What Has History of Science to Do with History of Philosophy?
Tad M. Schmaltz

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