The Philosophical Papers of Alan Donagan, Volume 1
Subtitle: Historical Understanding and the History of Philosophy
Contributors: J. E. Malpas (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 15, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780226155708
Subjects: History: theory & methods; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; American Philosophy (20th Century); History - General History; Philosophy; USA; General; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy / Modern; Ethics; History; Philosophy of mind
First sentence: In a recent paper of which I was shown a copy (it is unpublished as far as I know), J.G.A. Pocock, the historian and political theorist who wrote Politics, Language, and Time (1971) and The Machiavellian Moment (1975), made fun of philosophers for customarily writing about the thought of the great philosophers in the present tense.