Philosophy and Its History

Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-985716-6
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lærke, Mogens

Laerke, Mogens

Smith, Justin E. H.

Schliesser, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Mogens Lærke is Senior Research Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure, Lyon and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.

Justin E. H. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University.

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