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.

About the Author
Mogens Laerke is Senior Research Fellow at the Ecole Normale Superieure, 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.

Reviews
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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780199857166
Author Mogens Laerke
Format Paperback
Page Count 374
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 513g
Dimensions(mm) 156mm * 235mm * 25mm