Introduction
Mogens Lærke, Justin E.H. Smith, and Eric Schliesser
Chapter 1: The Anthropological Analogy and the Constitution of
Historical Perspectivism
Mogens Lærke
Chapter 2: The History of Philosophy as Past and as Process
Justin E. H. Smith
Chapter 3 : Philosophy and Genealogy. Ways of writing history of
philosophy.
Koen Vermeir
Chapter 4 : Understanding the Argument Through Then-Current Public
Debates or My Detective Method of History of Philosophy
Ursula Goldenbaum
Chapter 5: The Contingency of Philosophical Problems
Joanne Waugh and Roger Ariew
Chapter 6 : Philosophical Problems in the History of Philosophy:
What are They?
Leo Catana
Chapter 7: Philosophizing Historically/Historicizing Philosophy:
Some Spinozistic Reflections
Julie R. Klein
Chapter 8 : Is the History of Philosophy a Family Affair? The
Examples of Malebranche and Locke in the Cousinian School
Delphine Kolesnik-Antoine
Chapter 9 : The Taming of Philosophy
Michael Della Rocca
Chapter 10 : Philosophic Prophecy
Eric Schliesser
Chapter 11 : Philosophical Systems and their History
Alan Nelson
Chapter 12 : Charitable Interpretations and the Political
Domestication of Spinoza,
or, Benedict in the Land of the Secular Imagination
Yitzhak Melamed
Chapter 13 : Mediating between Past and Present:
Descartes, Newton, and Contemporary Structural Realism
Mary Domski
Chapter 14 : What Has History of Science to Do with History of
Philosophy?
Tad M. Schmaltz
Bibliography
Mogens Lærke is Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS (UMR 5037, ENS
de Lyon) and Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Aberdeen.
Justin E. H. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Paris VII -- Denis Diderot.
Eric Schliesser is Bijzonder Onderzoeks Fond Research Professor and
Associated Professor of philosophy and moral science at Ghent
University.
"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
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