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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.

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Author:   Mogens Laerke ,  Justin E. H. Smith ,  Eric Schliesser
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9780199857166

ISBN 10:   0199857164
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   29 August 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Mogens Laerke, Justin E.H. Smith, and Eric Schliesser Chapter 1: The Anthropological Analogy and the Constitution of Historical Perspectivism Mogens Laerke 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 Bibliography

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Most of the 15 contributors to this quality collection are committed to the value for contemporary philosophy of thorough, historically situated studies of earlier thinkers' philosophies. This text should be required reading for all philosophers who think mere analysis of textual meaning is sufficient for philosophical analysis S. Young, McHenry County College, CHOICE

Most of the 15 contributors to this quality collection are committed to the value for contemporary philosophy of thorough, historically situated studies of earlier thinkers' philosophies. This text should be required reading for all philosophers who think mere analysis of textual meaning is sufficient for philosophical analysis. -S. Young, McHenry County College, CHOICE

Author Information

Mogens Laerke 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.

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