Philosophy and Its History: Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy

Hardcover, x + 362 pages, NOT ex-library. Printed in the USA. Fine interior, book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show gentle handling wear, short creases to spine ends. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Introduction; 1. Anthropological Analogy and the Constitution of Historical Perspectivism / Mogens Laerke [Introduction; Requirements for an Unapologetic Historiography of Philosophy; Anthropological Analogy; Fieldwork in the History of Philosophy; Historical Perspectivism; Historical Actualism; Conclusion]; 2. History of Philosophy as Past and as Process / Justin E.H. Smith [Introduction; Real Archaeology of Knowledge; A Wissenschaft der Neuzeit?; Holding Water; Case Studies; History, Philosophy, and Myth]; 3. Philosophy and Genealogy: Ways of Writing History of Philosophy / Koen Vermeir [Appropriationists vs Contextualists; History of Philosophy vs Philosophical Uses of History; Genealogies and Sameness; Genealogies and Difference; Conclusion]; 4. Understanding the Argument through Then-Current Public Debates or My Detective Method of History of Philosophy / Ursula Goldenbaum [Meaning of Kant's Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?; Method]; 5. Contingency of Philosophical Problems / Joanne Waugh & Roger Ariew [Introduction; Mythic Tales of 'Philosophical History'; Problem with Problems: Sorting Myth and Philosophy]; 6. Philosophical Problems in the History of Philosophy: What Are They? / Leo Catana [Concept of Problem in Problem-based History of Philosophy; Concept of Problem as It Has Been Practiced in Problem-based Histories of Philosophy; Brandis Integrating the Internal-External Distinction into a Problem-based History of Philosophy; Philosophical Problems Transgressing the Internal-External Distinction]; 7. Philosophizing Historically/Historicizing Philosophy: Some Spinozistic Reflections / Julie R. Klein [Introduction; Philosophical Readers; Reason and Affect, Again; Contemporary Readers and Historical Texts; Conclusion]; 8. Is the History of Philosophy a Family Affair? Examples of Malebranche and Locke in the Cousinian School / Delphine Kolesnik-Antoine [Introduction; Malebranche and Locke: frères ennemis?; Malebranche and Locke: Twin Brothers; Conclusion]; 9. Taming of Philosophy / Michael Della Rocca [Characterizing the Method of Intuition and Its Alternatives; Is It Good? Taming and Conservatism; Is It Good? Taming and the Antiquarianism of the Present; Is It Good? Taming, Quine, and Revision; Why Now?; Two Lifelines]; 10. Philosophic Prophecy / Eric Schliesser [Introduction and Summary; Philosophic Prophecy; Methodological Contrasts; Ernest Nagel: The (False) Prophet of Analytical Philosophy; Schlick and Coining Concepts: A Counter-History of Analytical Philosophy]; 11. Philosophical Systems and Their History / Alan Nelson [What Is Systematic Interpretation?; Obstacles to Systematic Interpretation; A Program for Systematic Interpretation: Locke's Essay]; 12. Charitable Interpretations and the Political Domestication of Spinoza, or, Benedict in the Land of the Secular Imagination / Yitzhak Y. Melamed ['Be Aware of the Charitable Interpreter': Charitable Interpretations, the History of Philosophy, and Gettier's Fallacy; 'Spinoza Got It Right': Charitable Interpretations and the History of Political and Religious Thought; Philosophical Relevancy]; 13. Mediating between Past and Present: Descartes, Newton, and Contemporary Structural Realism / Mary Domski [History in Current Debates about Structural Realism; Descartes and Newton on the Appropriateness of Mathematics for Physics (Descartes's Principles; Newton's De Gravitatione); Descartes, Newton, and Structural Realism]; 14. What Has History of Science to Do with History of Philosophy? / Tad M. Schmaltz [History of History of Science; Relation of History of Philosophy to Philosophy; Science and Philosophy in Early Modern Thought]; Bibliography; Index Nominum; Index Rerum.…