this volume contains contributions that genuinely move forward research on the foundations of methodology in the history of philosophy
Sandra Lapointe, McMaster University, Journal of the History of Philosophy
Does historical perspective contribute to today's philosophy? If so, what is the contribution of this perspective, and how does relating it to current philosophy bring this contribution about?
Since the rise of analytical philosophy, debates on historical perspective have intensified and widened in scope. In Philosophy and the Historical Perspective, these questions, and more, are answered via a range of philosophical strands, topics and debates. Based on the hope that philosophical debates could benefit from taking methodological and meta-philosophical questions into account, the volume concerns the historical perspective of current philosophical debates and as a result, the methods and nature of philosophy.
With contributions from leading experts, Philosophy and the Historical Perspective encompasses the history of philosophy, its sub-disciplines, and approaches and proposes that such questions deserve to be addressed in their own right, not just as an adjunct to other discussions.
- Introduction
- 1: Hans-Johann Glock: What Have the Historians Ever Done for Us?
- 2: John Marenbon: Why We Need a Real History of Philosophy
- 3: Thomas Grundmann: Progress and Historical Reflection in Philosophy
- 4: Marcel van Ackeren: Philosophy and the Historical Perspective: A New Debate on an Old Topic
- 5: Michael Della Rocca: Meaning, the History of Philosophy, and Analytical Philosophy: A Parmenidean Ascent
- 6: John Skorupski: Reason in History
- 7: Christof Rapp: The Liaison between Analytic and Ancient Philosophy and Its Consequences
- 8: Dominik Perler: The Alienation Effect in the Historiography of Philosophy
- 9: Christina van Dyke: What Has History to Do with Philosophy? Insights from the Medieval Contemplative Tradition
- 10: Robert Pippin: Hegel on the Political Significance of Collective Self-Deceit
- 11: Brian Leiter: The History of Philosophy Reveals that 'Great' Philosophy is disguised Moral Advocacy: A Nietzschean Case against the Socratic Canon in Philosophy
- 12: Martin Kusch: The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge Revisited: Relativism, Skepticism, Reductionism
- 13: Ursula Renz: On Philosophical Problems: Some Remarks on an Old Battlefield
- 14: Lisa Maria Herzog: History as an Interdisciplinary Dialogue - the Case of Philosophy and Economics