Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy (Mind Association Occasional)

240 Pages·2005·1.29 MB·English

by  Tom Sorell

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PREFACE
This book brings together specially commissioned papers on the
relation between analytic philosophy and history of philosophy.
Some aredrawnfrom aconference onthis topicheld inOxfordin
March 2002. Others were written afterwards by invited contri-
butors. The editors would like to thank the Mind Association and
theBritishSocietyfortheHistoryofPhilosophyforsupportingthe
original event. The editors would also like to thank those who
helped with conference organization, including Mrs Jo Rogers.
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CONTENTS
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Tom Sorell
The Philosopher’s History and the History of Philosophy 13
Anthony Kenny
Why Should Analytic Philosophers Do
History of Philosophy? 25
John Cottingham
On Saying No to History of Philosophy 43
Tom Sorell
Is the History of Philosophy Good for Philosophy? 61
Catherine Wilson
The History of Philosophy as Philosophy 83
Gary Hatfield
What’s Philosophical about the History of Philosophy? 129
Daniel Garber
The Ideology of Context: Uses and Abuses of
Context in the Historiography of Philosophy 147
Yves Charles Zarka
Locke, Therapy, and Analysis 161
G. A. J. Rogers
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Richard Burthogge and the Origins of Modern
Conceptualism 179
M. R. Ayers
Hope, Fear, and the Politics of Immortality 201
Steven Nadler
Index 219
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Michael Ayers is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Wadham
College,Oxford.Hehaspublishedanumberofarticlesonboththe
history of philosophy and current issues in general philosophy,
including‘AnalyticalPhilosophyandtheHistoryofPhilosophy’in
JonathanReeetal.,PhilosophyanditsPast(1978).Heisauthorof
The Refutation of Determinism (1968) and Locke (2 vols., 1991),
and co-editor with Daniel Garber of The Cambridge History of
Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (2 vols., 1998).
John Cottingham is Professor of Philosophy and Director of
ResearchintheSchoolofHumanitiesattheUniversityofReading.
Hissingle-authoredbooksincludeDescartes(1986),TheRationalists
(1988), Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in
Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics (1998), and On the
Meaning of Life (2003). He is co-translator of The Philosophical
WritingsofDescartes,andhiseditedcollectionsincludeTheCambridge
CompaniontoDescartes(1992)andDescartes(1998).
DanielGarberisProfessorofPhilosophyatPrincetonUniversity
and a member of the Program in the History of Science. He is the
author of Descartes’ Metaphysical Physics (1992) and Descartes
Embodied (2001), and is co-editor (with Michael Ayers) of The
Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (2 vols.,
1998). He is currently working on a variety of topics, including
studies of Aristotelianism and its opponents in early seventeenth-
century France, and physics and philosophy in Leibniz’s thought.
His gravlax is considered by many to be a wonder of nature.
Gary Hatfield teaches philosophy at the University of
Pennsylvania. In addition to chapters and articles in the history
ofphilosophyandthephilosophyofpsychology,heistheauthorof
The Natural and the Normative: Theories of Spatial Perception
fromKanttoHelmholtz(1990)andDescartesandtheMeditations
(2003), and translator of Kant’s Prolegomena.
Anthony Kenny was for many years Philosophy Tutor at Balliol
College, Oxford, of which he became Master in 1978. He is the