Griffioen / Backmann Pluralizing Philosophy’s Past

New Reflections in the History of Philosophy
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-13405-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This collection of 15 accessible essays on neglected philosophical figures and traditions aims to provide readers with concrete access points to less familiar philosophical sources and methods. Showcasing the latest research by both up-and-coming and well-established scholars, each essay focuses on a particular topic relevant to the pluralization of the history of philosophy and offers advice for incorporating the figure, theme, or approach into the philosophy classroom.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffioen, Amber L.

Backmann, Marius

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Anne Conway on Substance and Individuals.- 3. Du Bois on the Centralized Organization of Science.- 4. A New Perspective on Old Ideas in González de Salas’s Nueva idea de la tragedia Antigua.- 5. Developing Political Realism: Some Ideas from Classical China.- 6. Philosopher of Samarqand: Abu Man?ur al-Maturidi’s Theory of Properties.- 7. Toward a Critical History of Philosophy: Hannah Arendt and the Critique of the Meditative Tradition.- 8. “Pervading the Sable Veil”:  Phillis Wheatley as Early Modern Philosopher of Religion.- 9. The Waters of Which We Have Spoken: Reading Marguerite Porete as Substance Metaphysics.- 10. Two Dogmas of Enlightenment Scholarship.- 11. “Novel Philosophy”: Mapping a Path for a Woman in the Radical Enlightenment”.- 12. Teaching Comparative History of Political Philosophy.- 13. Doing Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century West Africa.- 14. Ibn Taymiyya’s “Common-Sense”Philosophy.- 15. From Meditation to Contemplation: Broadening the Borders of Philosophy in the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries.- 16. Notes for an Indigenous Political Philosophy in New Spain: On the Figure of Nezahualcóyotl.

Über Autor(innen)

Amber L. Griffioen works on topics in philosophy of religion, practical and social philosophy, history of philosophy, and philosophy of sport. She is the author of a short book on religious experience, and her current historical research explores the epistemological legacy of medieval devotional and confessional literature.Marius Backmann is a fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. His work focuses on philosophy of time, free will, laws of nature, attempts to solve the problem of induction, and the epistemology of randomized clinical trials.