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

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Mogens Lærke, Justin E. H. Smith, Eric Schliesser
Oxford University Press, 2013 - 362 pagina's
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. These do so 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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Introduction
1
1 The Anthropological Analogy and the Constitution of Historical Perspectivism
7
2 The History of Philosophy as Past and as Process
30
Ways of Writing History of Philosophy
50
4 Understanding the Argument through ThenCurrent Public Debates or My Detective Method of History of Philosophy
71
5 The Contingency of Philosophical Problems
91
What Are They?
115
Some Spinozistic Reflections
134
10 Philosophic Prophecy
209
11 Philosophical Systems and Their History
236
12 Charitable Interpretations and the Political Domestication of Spinoza or Benedict in the Land of the Secular Imagination
258
Descartes Newton and Contemporary Structural Realism
278
14 What Has History of Science to Do with History of Philosophy?
301
Bibliography
325
Index Nominum
353
Index Rerum
359

8 Is the History of Philosophy a Family Affair? The Examples of Malebranche and Locke in the Cousinian School
159
9 The Taming of Philosophy
178

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