| Description |
xii, 403 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Ideas in Context |
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Ideas in context.
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Philosophy and its history / Charles Taylor -- The relationship of philosophy to its past / Alasdair MacIntyre -- The historiography of philosophy: four genres / Richard Rorty -- Why do we study the history of philosophy? / Lorenz Krüger -- Five parables / Ian Hacking -- Seven thinkers and how they grew: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz; Locke, Berkeley, Hume; Kant / Bruce Kuklick -- "Interesting questions" in the history of philosophy and elsewhere / Wolf Lepenies -- The Divine Corporation and the history of ethics / J.B. Schneewind -- The idea of negative liberty: philosophical and historical perspectives / Quentin Skinner -- pt. 2. The sceptic in his place and time / M.F. Burnyeat -- The sceptic's two kinds of assent and the question of the possibility of knowledge / Michael Frede -- The concept of "trust" in the politics of John Locke / John Dunn -- Berkeley and Hume: a question of influence / Michael Ayers -- Frege: the early years / Hans Sluga -- Moore's rejection of idealism / Thomas Baldwin -- The nature of the proposition and the revolt against idealism / Peter Hylton |
| Summary |
Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83 |
| Analysis |
Philosophy Historiography |
| Notes |
Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- Historiography.
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Philosophy -- History.
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Philosophy -- Historiography.
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Philosophy -- History.
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| Author |
Rorty, Richard.
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Schneewind, J. B. (Jerome B.), 1930-
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Skinner, Quentin.
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| LC no. |
84952481 |
| ISBN |
0521253527 |
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0521273307 |
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9780521253529 |
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9780521273305 |
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