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Philosophy and Its History

Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy

Justin E H Smith editor Eric Schliesser editor Mogens Lærke editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:1st Aug '13

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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. 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.

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 *

ISBN: 9780199857166

Dimensions: 156mm x 235mm x 25mm

Weight: 513g

374 pages