Title: Philosophy in history :
Authors: Rorty, Richard.; Schneewind, J. B.; Skinner, Quentin.
Date: 1984
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: xii, 403 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: B
Contents: 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 -- 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.
Notes: Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83. Issued with various printing dates.
Subject headings (LCSH): Philosophy--Historiography.; Philosophy--History.