Philosophy of History of Philosophy
& Historiography of Philosophy:
Selected Bibliography

Compiled by Ralph Dumain

LINKS ON THIS SITE

Philosophy and the History of Philosophy (quotes) by Jonathan Rée
Source: Rée, Jonathan; Ayers, Michael; Westoby, Adam. Philosophy and its Past. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1978. (Philosophy Now)

Sigfried Kracauer on History and Non-Simultaneity

The architectonic of pure reason (excerpt) by Immanuel Kant

Frames of Articulation by Frithjof Rodi

Is philosophical creativity combinatorial? by Henri Lefebvre

Hartshorne & Lovejoy on combinatorics & philosophical significance

Adorno on Progress in Philosophy

Why Isn’t There More Progress in Philosophy (theses or arguments?) by David J. Chalmers

Levi, Albert William. Philosophy as Social Expression. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. See Descartes' Dualism (Extract from Chapter 4) & "Philosophy's Historic Fate: Museum Pieces, Messages, and Classics" (Chapter 6, Conclusion).

The Philosophers: Their Lives and the Nature of Their Thought by Ben-Ami Scharfstein

Hegel's Method of Doing Philosophy Historically: A Reply by James Lawler & Vladimir Shtinov

System and History in Philosophy: A Review by Ralph Dumain
(Peperzak, Adriaan Theodoor. System and History in Philosophy: On the Unity of Thought and Time, Text and Explanation, Solitude and Dialogue, Rhetoric and Truth in the Practice of Philosophy and its History)

Dialectical Materialism and Hegel's Philosophy of the History of Philosophy by Theodore Oizerman

Dialectical Materialism and the History of Philosophy: Essays on the History of Philosophy by Theodore Oizerman

The Main Trends in Philosophy: A Theoretical Analysis of the History of Philosophy by T.I Oizerman

Problems of the History of Philosophy by Theodore Oizerman

Principles of the Theory of Historical Process in Philosophy by T.I Oizerman & A.S. Bogomolov

Principles of the Theory of Historical Process in Philosophy by T.I Oizerman & A.S. Bogomolov, review by R. Dumain

Problems of the History of Philosophy by Theodore Oizerman, reviewed by Ralph Dumain

Soviet Historiography of Philosophy: Review Essay by Ralph Dumain

Evert van der Zweerde & Ralph Dumain: Correspondence on autodidacts & Soviet philosophical culture

The Partial Sociology of Philosophies: The Historical Perspective of Randall Collins (An Unfinished Review) by R. Dumain

Marx's Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy (Extracts on Total Philosophy, Praxis, Historiography)

Hegel & Me by Ralph Dumain

"‘Philosophy’ and ‘Literature’: Relationships of Genres and the Frontiers of Thought" by Ralph Dumain

Philosophy of Early German Romanticism, the Oriental Renaissance, and the Historiography of Philosophy: An Introductory Bibliography

History of Chinese Logic, Argumentation, & Rhetoric to 1950: Essential Bibliography

Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography

Argumentation & Controversies: Selected Bibliography

Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography

Diversity, Intercultural & Comparative Philosophy in the Historiography of Philosophy: A Guide

Philosophy for the 21st Century: A Provincial Bibliography

INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN SOCIETY, CONVENTIONAL AND UNCONVENTIONAL: A BIBLIOGRAPHY IN PROGRESS
See sections:

PROLETARIAN PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: SPECIAL PERSPECTIVES
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
G.W.F. HEGEL

(See also study guides & mini-bibliographies)

ESSAYS ON OTHER SITES

The Contextualism of Philosophy [or here on one web page] by Volker Peckhaus
[Published in Martin Kusch (ed.), The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge, Kluwer: Dordrecht/Boston/London 2000 (New Synthese Historical Library; 48), 179-191.]

Metaphilosophical Pluralism and Paraconsistency: From Orientative to Multi-level Pluralism
M.E. Orellana Benado, Andrés Bobenrieth, Carlos Verdugo
Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

ABSTRACT: In a famous passage, Kant claimed that controversy and the lack of agreement in metaphysics—here understood as philosophy as a whole—was a ‘scandal.’ Attempting to motivate his critique of pure reason, a project aimed at both ending the scandal and setting philosophy on the ‘secure path of science,’ Kant endorsed the view that for as long as disagreement reigned sovereign in philosophy, there would be little to be learned from it as a science. The success of philosophy begins when controversy ends and culminates when the discipline itself as it has been known disappears. On the other hand, particularly in the second half of the twentieth century, many have despaired of the very possibility of philosophy constituting the search for truth, that is to say, a cognitive human activity, and constituting thus a source of knowledge. This paper seeks to sketch a research program that is motivated by an intuition that opposes both of these views.

Oizerman, T. I. "The Problem of the Scientific Philosophical World-Outlook," in Philosophy in the USSR: Problems of Dialectical Materialism, translated from the Russian by Robert Daglish (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977), pp. 22-42.

Read, Jason. "The Althusser Effect: Philosophy, History, and Temporality," borderlands e-journal, volume 4 number 2, 2005.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES ON OTHER SITES

Lawn, Chris. The Philosophy of the History of Philosophy Bibliography, March 27, 2009 (updated version).

OTHER BOOKS

Catana, Leo. The Historiographical Concept ‘System of Philosophy’: Its Origin, Nature, Influence and Legitimacy. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; 165)

Cohen, Avner; Dascal, Marcelo; eds. The Institution of Philosophy: A Discipline in Crisis? La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1989. For my commentary see Marcelo Dascal — Studies in a Dying Culture blog.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS ix
PREFACE xi
PART I: PHILOSOPHY: SELF IDENTITY QUESTIONED [1]
Introduction [3]
1. Richard Rorty: Philosophy as Science, as Metaphor, and as Politics [13]
2. Hector-Neri Castañeda: Philosophy as a Science and as a Worldview [35]
3. Hilary Putnam: Why is a Philosopher? [61]
4. A. J. Mandt: The Inevitability of Pluralism: Philosophical Practice and Philosophical Excellence [77]
PART II: PHILOSOPHY: INTERPRETING THE CRISIS [103]
Introduction [105]
5. Avner Cohen: The 'End-of-Philosophy': An Anatomy of a Cross-Purpose Debate [111]
6. David M. Rosenthal: Philosophy and its History [141]
7. Mark Okrent: The Metaphilosophical Consequences of Pragmatism [177]
8. Carlin Romano: The Illegality of Philosophy [199]
9. Marcelo Dascal: Reflections on the 'Crisis of Modernity' [217]
PART III: PHILOSOPHY: WHAT NEXT? [241]
Introduction [243]
10. Joseph Margolis: Radical Philosophy and Radical History [249]
11. Amelle Oksenberg Rorty: Socrates and Sophia Perform the Philosophical Turn [271]
12. Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson: Social Criticism Without Philosophy: An Encounter Between Feminism and Postmodernism [283]
13. H. Redner: Ethics in Unethical Times - Towards a Sociology of Ethics [303]
NAME INDEX [329]

Collins, Randall.  The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998. (Paperback ed., 2000.)

Cook, Patricia, ed. Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory: Appropriating Historical Traditions, Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.

Acknowledgment vii
Introduction 1
PART I PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURAL MEMORY
   George Allan
      Traditions and Transitions 21
   Donald Phillip Verene
      Two Sources of Philosophical Memory: Vico Versus Hegel 40
PART II PHILOSOPHICAL IMAGINATION AND
THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
   Alasdair MacIntyre
      Are Philosophical Problems Insoluble? The Relevance of
      System and History 65
   J. B. Schneewind
      Modern Moral Philosophy: From Beginning to End? 83
   George R. Lucas, Jr.
      Refutation, Narrative, and Engagement: Three Conceptions of the History of Philosophy 104
PART III PERSPECTIVES ON THE SIGNIFICANCE
OF CULTURAL MEMORY
   Arthur C. Danto
      The Shape of Artistic Pasts: East and West 125
   Lynn S. Joy
      Humanism and the Problem of Traditions in Seventeenth-Century
      Natural Philosophy 139
   Robert Cummings Neville
      The Symbiotic Relation of Philosophy and Theology 149
PART IV CULTURAL MEMORY AND TEXTUAL INTERPRETATION
    Eva T H. Brann
      The Six Silences of a Grecian Urn 167
   George L. Kline
      Changing Russian Assessments of Spinoza and
      Their German Sources, 1796-1862 176
   John S. Rickard
      Tradition and Intertextual Memory in James Joyce's Ulysses 195
   Stanley Rosen
      Plato's Quarrel with the Poets 212
Selected Bibliography 227
Index 233
Contributors 245

Dauenhauer, Bernard P., ed. At the Nexus of Philosophy and History. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1987.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction
   Bernard P. Dauenhauer ix
PART 1 Historical Aspects of Philosophical Thought
   History, Philosophy, and the Question of Relativism
      Richard Bernstein 3
   Philosophy and Its History
      Louis Dupré 20
   Can Philosophy Have a Rational History?
      Richard Dien Winfield 42
   Logic and History
      Bowman Clarke 58
   Philosophical Problems and Historical Solutions
      Nancy Streuver 73
PART 2 On History and Its Uses
   The Place of History in Nietzsche's Thought
      Ofelia Schutte 97
   Bertrand Russell on History: The Theory and Practice of a Moral Science
      Kirk Willis 116
   Two New Histories: An Exploratory Comparison
      Ernst Breisach 138
   History's Point and Subject Matter: A Proposal
      Bernard P. Dauenhauer 157
   Michel Foucault and the Career of the Historical Event
      Thomas R. Flynn 178
   Habermas and History: The Institutionalization of Discourse as Historical Project
      A. Anthony Smith 201
The Contributors 223

Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969), translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith. London: Tavistock Publications; New York: Pantheon Books, 1972; London; New York: Routledge, 2002. Contents. Introduction. Chapters 1-3.

Gracia, Jorge J. E. Philosophy and Its History: Issues in Philosophical Historiography. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.

ABSTRACT: This is a systematic and comprehensive treatment of philosophical historiography. It deals with the relation of philosophy to its history, the role of value judgments in historical accounts, the value of the history of philosophy for philosophy, the nature and role of texts and their interpretation in the history of philosophy, historiographical method, and the stages of development of philosophical progress. It defends two main theses: first, the history of philosophy must be done philosophically; second, one way to bring a rapprochement between Anglo-American and Continental philosophy is through the study of the history of philosophy and its historiography.

Hare, Peter H., ed. Doing Philosophy Historically. Buffalo: Prometheus, 1988.

ABSTRACT: The conference whose proceedings make up this volume was organized in the belief that an increasing number of philosophers recognize that "doing philosophy historically" is possible, i.e., that it is possible for a philosopher at once to contribute to the solution of current philosophical problems and to the history of thought. the volume consists of an introduction, and essays and commentaries in seven parts by twenty-eight philosophers: I, Raising The Issues; II, Ancient Philosophy; III, Descartes; IV, Kant; V, Hegel; VI, The Scottish commonsense tradition; and VII, Recent American And European Philosophy.

Some essays of note:

Rée, Jonathan. "History, Philosophy, and Interpretation: Some Reactions to Jonathan Bennett's Study of Spinoza's Ethics", in Doing Philosophy Historically, ed. Peter H. Hare (Buffalo, N.Y., Prometheus Books, 1988), 44-61.

Schmitz, Kenneth. "Why Philosophy Must Have a History: Hegel's Proposal," in Doing Philosophy Historically, ed. Peter H. Hare (Buffalo, N.Y., Prometheus Books, 1988), 251-266.

Hegel's Method of Doing Philosophy Historically: A Reply by James Lawler & Vladimir Shtinov.

Rodi, Frithjof. "Historical Philosophy in Search of 'Frames of Articulation'," in: Doing Philosophy Historically, edited by Peter H. Hare (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1988), pp. 329-340. This section, pp. 332-335:
Frames of Articulation

Contents:
INTRODUCTION 11
PART I. RAISING THE ISSUES
Does History Have a Future?: Some Reflections on Bennett and Doing Philosophy Historically / Daniel Garber 27
History, Philosophy, and Interpretation: Some Reactions to Jonathan Bennett’s Study of Spinoza’s Ethics / Jonathan Rée 44
Response to Garber and Rée / Jonathan Bennett 62
PART II. ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Rorty on Plato as an Edifier / Daniel A. Dombrowski 73
Commentary on Dombrowski on Plato / Charles L. Griswold 85
Philosophy and Its History: Veatch’s Aristotle / Jorge J. E. Gracia 92
Aristotle and Philosophy Now: Some Critical Reflections / Robert G. Turnbull 117
Response to Commentators / Henry B. Veatch 127
Anachronism in the History of Philosophy / Daniel W. Graham 137
A Response to Graham’s “Anachronism in the History of Philosophy” / Josiah B. Gould 149
PART III. DESCARTES
The Limits of Cartesian Dualism / Georges Dicker 155
Some Thoughts on “The Limits of Cartesian Dualism” / Jose Benardete 166
Descartes’s Answer to the Problems of Empiricism: Is This a Philosophic or a Historical Issue? / Frederick P. Van De Pitte 169
Commentary—Whig’s Progress / Richard A. Watson 179
Descartes, Omnipotence, and Kinds of Modality / Lilli Alanen 182
Commentary on Lilli Alanen’s “Descartes, Omnipotence, and Kinds of Modality” / George I. Mavrodes 197
PART IV. KANT
What—If Anything—Is Transcendental Synthesis? / John I. Biro 203
“What Is the Ground of the Relation of That in Us Which We Call ‘Representation’ to the Object?”: Reflections on the Kantian Legacy in the Philosophy of Mind / David G. Stern 216
Inner States and Outer Relations: Kant and the Case for Monadism / James Van Cleve 231
PART V. HEGEL
Why Philosophy Must Have a History: Hegel’s Proposal / Kenneth L. Schmitz 251
Hegel’s Method of Doing Philosophy Historically: A Reply / James Lawler and Vladimir Shtinov 267
PART VI. THE SCOTTISH COMMONSENSE TRADITION
Motives and Causes in the Scottish Commonsense Tradition / Todd L. Adams 283
Commentary—Among the Indeterminists / Phillip Cummins 291
PART VII. RECENT AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY
Myers and James: A Philosophical Dialogue / Edward H. Madden 299
On Interpreting William James with Edward Madden / Gerald E. Myers 320
Historical Philosophy in Search of “Frames of Articulation” / Frithjof Rodi 329
Assimilation and Reconstruction in Historical Philosophy: A Skeptical View / Rudolf Lüthe 341
INDEX 346

Holland, A.J., ed. Philosophy, Its History and Historiography. Dordrecht, Holland; Boston: D. Reidel Pub. Co.; Hingham, MA: Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1985.

Knuuttila, Simo; Niiniluoto, Ilkka; eds. Methods of Philosophy and the History of Philosophy. [Proceedings of the Entretiens of Institut International de Philosophie. Helsinki, August 27–30, 1995] Helsinki: The Philosophical Society of Finland (Acta Philosophica Fennica; 61), 1996.

Jacquette, Dale, ed. Philosophy, Psychology and Psychologism: Critical and Historical Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy. New York; Boston; Dordrecht; London; Moscow: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. (Philosophical Studies Series; 91)

Kelley, Donald R. The Descent of Ideas: The History of Intellectual History. Aldershot, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002.

Kelley, Donald R., ed. History and the Disciplines: The Reclassification of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1997.

Kusch, Martin. Psychologism: A Case Study in the Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge. London; New York: Routledge, 1995.

Four Appendices to Psychologism (1995).

Hanna, Robert. Review of Psychologism: A Case Study in the Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge by Martin Kusch (London: Routledge, 1995), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 57, no.4 (December 1997): 961-964.

Review: Martin Kusch, Psychologism by R. Dumain. See also psychologism @ Studies in a Dying Culture.

Kusch, Martin, ed. The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. (New Synthese Historical Library; 48)

Lærke, Mogens; Smith, Justin E. H.; Schliesser, Eric; eds. Philosophy and Its History: Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy. Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Contributors vii
Introduction — Mogens Lærke, Justin E. H. Smith, and Eric Schliesser 1
1. The Anthropological Analogy and the Constitution of Historical Perspectivism — Mogens Lærke 7
2. The History of Philosophy as Past and as Process — Justin E. H. Smith 30
3. Philosophy and Genealogy: Ways of Writing History of Philosophy — Koen Vermeir 50
4. Understanding the Argument through Then-Current Public Debates or My Detective Method of History of Philosophy — Ursula Goldenbaum 71
5. The Contingency of Philosophical Problems — Joanne Waugh and Roger Ariew 91
6. Philosophical Problems in the History of Philosophy: What Are They? — Leo Catana 115
7. Philosophizing Historically/Historicizing Philosophy: Some Spinozistic Reflections — Julie R. Klein 134
8. Is the History of Philosophy a Family Affair? The Examples of Malebranche and Locke in the Cousinian School — Delphine Kolesnik-Antoine 159
9. The Taming of Philosophy — Michael Della Rocca 178
10. Philosophic Prophecy — Eric Schliesser 209
11. Philosophical Systems and Their History — Alan Nelson 236
12. Charitable Interpretations and the Political Domestication of Spinoza, or, Benedict in the Land of the Secular Imagination — Yitzhak Y. Melamed 258
13. Mediating between Past and Present: Descartes, Newton, and Contemporary Structural Realism — Mary Domski 278
14. What Has History of Science to Do with History of Philosophy? — Tad M. Schmaltz 301
Bibliography 325
Index Nominum 353
Index Rerum 359

Lavine, T .Z.; Tejera, V.; eds. History and Anti-History in Philosophy. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. (Nijhoff International Philosophy series; v. 34) Table of Contents.

Models of the History of Philosophy:

Models of the History of Philosophy: Volume I: From Its Origins in the Renaissance to the 'Historia Philosophica', edited by Francesco Bottin, Giovanni Santinello, C. W. T. Blackwell, Philip Weller. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993. (Archives internationales d’histoire des idées; 135.) Original Italian ed. 1981.

Models of the History of Philosophy: Volume II: From the Cartesian Age to Brucker, edited by Gregorio Piaia and Giovanni Santinello, translated from the Italian edition (1979). Dordrecht: Springer, 2011. (International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d’histoire des idées; 204.)

Models of the History of Philosophy: Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and the Kantian Age, edited by Gregorio Piaia and Giovanni Santinello, in association with Francesca D’Alberto and Iva Manova, translated by Hilary Siddons. Dordrecht: Springer, 2015. (International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d’histoire des idées; 216.) Original Italian eds. of vols. 3 & 4, 1988, 1995. English edition incorporates chapter 1 of vol. 4.

Projected volumes:

4 The Age of Hegel (the first half of the nineteenth century);

5 The Later Nineteenth Century.

Moran, Dermot, ed. The Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2008. Contents & commentary (by R. Dumain)

Oizerman, Theodore. Problems of the History of Philosophy, translated from the Russian by Robert Daglish. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1973.

Panaccio, Claude. Récit et reconstruction: Les fondements de la méthode en histoire de la philosophie. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2019.

Précis de Récit et reconstruction, Philosophiques, vol. 46, no. 2, Automne 2019, p. 375-380.

Lagerlund, Henrik. "What Renaissance?", Aeon, 31 May 2021.

See also Panaccio under Articles & Essays.

Park, Peter K. J. Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780-1830. Albany: SUNY Press, 2013.

Contents
List of Figures vii
Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
List of Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
1 The Kantian School and the Consolidation of Modern Historiography of Philosophy 11
2 The Birth of Comparative History of Philosophy: Joseph-Marie de Gérando’s Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie 31
3 India in Friedrich Schlegel’s Comparative History of Philosophy 51
4 The Exclusion of Africa and Asia from the History of Philosophy: The Formation of the Kantian Position 69
5 Systematic Inclusion of Africa and Asia under Absolute Idealism: Friedrich Ast’s and Thaddä Anselm Rixner’s Histories of Philosophy 97
6 Absolute Idealism Reverts to the Kantian Position: Hegel’s Exclusion of Africa and Asia 113
7 The Comparative History of Philosophy in August Tholuck’s Polemic against Hegel 133
Conclusion 149
Notes 153
Bibliography 199
Index 221

Peperzak, Adriaan Theodoor. System and History in Philosophy: On the Unity of Thought and Time, Text and Explanation, Solitude and Dialogue, Rhetoric and Truth in the Practice of Philosophy and its History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Philosophy and the Historical Perspective, edited by Marcel Van Ackeren with Lee Klein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. (Proceedings of the British Academy; 214)

Preface
Notes on Contributors
1 Philosophy and the historical perspective: a new debate on an old topic / Marcel Van Ackeren
2 What have the historians ever done for us? / Hans-Johann Glock
3 Why we need a real history of philosophy / John Marenbon (36–50)
4 Progress and historical reflection in philosophy / Thomas Grundmann
5 On interpreting historical texts and contributing to current philosophy / Marcel Van Ackeren
6 Meaning, the history of philosophy, and analytical philosophy: a Parmenidean ascent / Michael Della Rocca
7 Reason in history / John Skorupski
8 The liaison between analytic and ancient philosophy and its consequences / Christof Rapp
9 The alienation effect in the historiography of philosophy / Dominik Perler
10 What has history to do with philosophy?: insights from the medieval contemplative tradition / Christina Van Dyke
11 Hegel on the political significance of collective self-deceit / Robert Pippin
12 The history of philosophy reveals that 'great' philosophy is disguised moral advocacy: a Nietzschean case against the Socratic canon in philosophy / Brian Leiter (185-199)
13 The sociology of philosophical knowledge revisited: relativism, scepticism, reductionism / Martin Kusch
14 On philosophical problems: some remarks on an old battlefield / Ursula Renz
15 History as an interdisciplinary dialogue: the case of philosophy and economics / Lisa Maria Herzog
Index

Piercey, Robert. The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Lawn, Chris. Review: The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically (Robert Piercey), British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2010, pp. 354-357.

Rescher, Nicholas. The Strife of Systems: An Essay on the Grounds and Implications of Philosophical Diversity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985.

Rorty, Richard; Schneewind, J.B.; Skinner, Quentin; eds. Philosophy in History: Essays on the Historiography of Philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Schneewind, J. B., ed. Teaching New Histories of Philosophy: Proceedings of a Conference, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, April 4-6, 2003. Princeton, NJ: University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 2004.

Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution / DANIEL GARBER 1
Old History and Introductory Teaching in Early Modern Philosophy: A Response to Daniel Garber / LISA DOWNING 19
Meaning and Metaphysics / SUSAN NEIMAN 29
Evil and Wonder in Early Modern Philosophy: A Response to Susan Neiman / MARK LARRIMORE 51
The Forgetting of Gender / NANCY TUANA 61
The Forgetting of Gender and the New Histories of Philosophy: A Response to Nancy Tuana / EILEEN O'NEILL 87
The Idea of Early Modern Philosophy / KNUD HAAKONSSEN 99
Response to Knud Haakonssen / JEFFREY EDWARDS 123
Arguments over Obligation: Teaching Time and Place in Moral Philosophy / IAN HUNTER 131
Response to Ian Hunter / T. J. HOCHSTRASSER 169
Teaching the History of Moral Philosophy / J. B. SCHNEEWIND 177
Historicism, Moral Judgment, and the Good Life: A Response to J. B. Schneewind / JENNIFER A. HERDT 197
Integrating History of Philosophy with History of Science after Kant / MICHAEL FRIEDMAN 205
Response to Michael Friedman / JULIET FLOYD 225
Thought versus History: Reflections on a French Problem / DENIS KAMBOUCHNER 235
Response to Denis Kambouchner / BEATRICE LONGUENESSE 263
Teaching the History of Philosophy in 19th-Century Germany / ULRICH JOHANNES SCHNEIDER 275
Response to Ulrich Johannes Schneider / KARL AMERIKS 297
Comment: Philosophy in Practice / LORRAINE DASTON 307
A Note from inside the Teapot / ANTHONY GRAFTON 317
Philosophy, History of Philosophy, and l'Histoire de l'Esprit Humain: A Historiographical Question and Problem for Philosophers / JONATHAN ISRAEL 329
History and/or Philosophy / DONALD R. KELLEY 345
Historians Look at the New Histories of Philosophy / ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION 361

Smart, Harold R. Philosophy and Its History. La Salle, IL: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1962.

Smith, Justin E. H. The Philosopher: A History in Six Types. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Sorell, Tom; Rogers, G.A.J.; eds. Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, June 2005.

Introduction, Tom Sorell
1. The Philosopher's History and the History of Philosophy, Anthony Kenny
2. Why Should Analytic Philosophers Do History of Philosophy?, John Cottingham
3. On Saying No to the History of Philosophy, Tom Sorell
4. Is the History of Philosophy Good for Philosophy?, Catherine Wilson
5. The History of Philosophy as Philosophy, Gary Hatfield
6. What's Philosophical About the History of Philosphy?, Daniel Garber
7. The Ideology of Context: Uses and Abuses of Context in the Historiography of Philosophy, Yves Charles Zarka
8. Locke, Therapy, and Analysis, G. A. J. Rogers
9. Richard Burthogge and the Origins of Modern Conceptualism, M. R. Ayers
10. Hope, Fear, and the Politics of Immortality, Steven Nadler

Thro, Linus J., ed. History of Philosophy in the Making: A Symposium of Essays to Honor Professor James D. Collins on his 65th Birthday. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1982.

OTHER ARTICLES & ESSAYS

Beaney, Michael. "Historiography, Philosophy of History and the Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy," Journal of the Philosophy of History, Volume 10, Issue 2, April 2016, pp. 1-24. (See ResearchGate.)

Catana, Leo . "The Concept 'System of Philosophy': The Case of Jacob Brucker's Historiography of Philosophy," History and Theory, vol. 44 (2005), pp. 72-90.

Catana, Leo . "Lovejoy's Readings of Bruno: Or How Nineteenth-Century History of Philosophy Was ‘Transformed’ into the History of Ideas," Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 70, no. 1, January 2010, pp. 89-110.

Chalmers, David J. “Why Isn’t There More Progress in Philosophy?” [p. 17], published in Being, Freedom, and Method: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Van Inwagen, edited by John A. Keller (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 277-298 (this quote, p. 290). See also philpapers. See also excerpt on this site.

Dilley, Frank B. “Why Do Philosophers Disagree?,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 7, no. 3, Fall 1969, pp. 217-228.

Frede, Michael. "The History of Philosophy as a Discipline", Journal of Philosophy, vol. 85, no. 11, Nov. 1988: 666-672.

Freudenthal, Gideon. “Overturning the Narrative: Maimon vs. Kant,” Discipline Filosofice 29:1 (2019): 47-68.

Garrett, Don. "Philosophy and History in the History of Modern Philosophy," in The Future for Philosophy, edited by Brian Leiter (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 44-73.

Graham, Gordon. "Can There Be History of Philosophy?", History and Theory, 21 (Fall 1982): 37-52.

ABSTRACT: This article considers the arguments of Collingwood and others that philosophical inquiry must have a historical dimension and concludes that none of them is satisfactory. It is claimed further, that there is a plain sense in which philosophical issues are atemporal such that history of philosophy strictly understood is impossible.

Granata, Giovanna. “Philosophers’ Private Libraries (1600-1800),” in Private Libraries and Their Documentation, 1665-1830: Studying and Interpreting Sources, edited by Rindert Jagersma, Helwi Blom, Evelien Chayes, Ann-Marie Hansen (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023), pp. 389-402. (Open access.)

Kail, P.J.E. "History's Back in the Past," The Philosophers' Magazine, issue 39, 3rd quarter, 2007, pp. 68-69.

Kristeller, Paul Oskar. "Philosophy and Its Historiography," Journal of Philosophy, v. 82, no. 11, Nov 1985, 618-625.

Kuntz, Paul G. “The Dialectic of Historicism and Anti-Historicism,” Monist, 53, October 1969, 656-669.

ABSTRACT: Can the dilemma of history and philosophy be escaped? Must we choose to be either historians or philosophers, and must a work be history or philosophy, but not both? I believe that the dilemma can be escaped and that a work may be the better for being both, but keeping scrupulously clear when we are doing one and when the other. We can conceive of two tasks, "the first is mainly historical, while the second is mainly philosophical." the first sort of question, of influence, development and the causes of ideas, can be answered only from historical knowledge of events. The second approach is a philosophic approach. We are discovering, without regard to dates and influences, the great types of possible philosophies. Our study here is how the system itself is articulated, and we seek to understand how "we shall ourselves acquire knowledge of important philosophical truths." The contrast then between a historical approach and a philosophic approach is that between a causal explanation of how a philosophy comes to be and an enquiry into a philosophy's meaning and truth.

Lawn, Chris. "Rewriting History," The Philosophers' Magazine, issue 38, 2nd quarter, 2007, pp. 34-37.

Mandelbaum, Maurice. "The History of Ideas, Intellectual History, and the History of Philosophy," History and Theory, Beihaft 5 (1965): 33-66.

ABSTRACT: The question of who is to count as a philosopher is claimed to be an important methodological issue for historians of philosophy. the answer proposed leads to a discussion of the difference between philosophic criticism and innovative "primary beliefs," both of which must be taken into account by historians of philosophy. Attention is given to various implications of the notion of primary beliefs. finally, it is pointed out why one should not expect that the history of philosophy will ever be adequately comprehended as Hegel and others have sought to comprehend it, as a single, developing whole.

Mandelbaum, Maurice. "On the Historiography of Philosophy," Philosophy Research Archives, 1976; 2: no. 1150.

ABSTRACT: Histories of philosophy represent a relatively new form of historical study, and some observations are made concerning the changes in style that they have undergone. a crucial question for the historian of philosophy is "who is to count as a philosopher?" an answer to this question is suggested. The question of the extent to which historians falsify the doctrines of individual philosophers by viewing them in terms of their predecessors and successors is then raised. In the second section of the paper, monistic views of social and cultural life are rejected, and a pluralistic approach is developed. This approach, it is contended, allows for emphasis on both originality and continuity in philosophic thought, and shows how philosophy is related to its social and cultural milieu without losing its identity.

Martinich, A. P. "Philosophical History of Philosophy", Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 41, no. 3, 2003: 405-407.

Moody, Todd C. Progress in Philosophy. Dissertation, Temple University, 1983.

Moody, Todd C. “Progress in Philosophy,” American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1, January 1986, pp. 35-46.

Nagel, Ernest. “Impressions and Appraisals of Analytic Philosophy in Europe,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 33 (1936), no. 1, pp. 5-24 & no. 2, pp. 29-53.

Osler, Margaret J. “The History of Philosophy and the History of Philosophy: A Plea for Textual History in Context,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 40, no. 4, 2002: 529-533

ABSTRACT: There are at least three ways to write the history of philosophy. Some historians of philosophy emphasize the context and development of ideas, concentrating on the intellectual, social, and personal factors that affect the way philosophers have thought about their subject. Some contextualists limit their accounts to intellectual factors. Others take account of broad social and cultural factors as well. Analytic philosophers take a critical approach, considering the logic and merit of the arguments of past philosophers almost as though they are engaging in contemporary debates. Others use the ideas of historical figures to support their own philosophical agendas. I examine the merits and difficulties of developing a truly contextualized approach to the history of philosophy by using the writings of the French philosopher, Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655), as an example.

Panaccio, Claude. "Grasping the Philosophical Relevance of Past Philosophies," in Language of Thought in Late Medieval Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Claude Panaccio, edited by Jenny Pelletier & Magali Roques (Cham; New York: Springer, 2017), pp. 439-451. See also Panaccio under Books.

"Philosophy and the History of Philosophy," special issue of The Monist, vol. 53, no. 4, October 1969.

Popkin, Richard H "Philosophy and the History of Philosophy," Journal of Philosophy, N 85; 82: 625-632.

Powers, Lawrence H. "On Philosophy and Its History," Philosophical Studies, 50, 1 (July 1986): 1-38.

"The Role of History in and for Philosophy," special issue of Synthese, vol. 67, no. 1, April 1986.

Rosenthal, David M. "Philosophy and Its History", in: The Institution of Philosophy: A Discipline in Crisis? edited by Avner Cohen & Marcelo Dascal (La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1989), pp. 141-176.

Sluga, Hans. "What Has History to Do With Me? Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy," Inquiry, vol. 41, 1998, pp. 99-121.

Review discussion centering on Peter Hacker's Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996). Critical of Hacker's British and Wittgensteinian bias in the historical evaluation of analytical philosophy. Also deals with general historiographical concerns in the history of ideas (cf. Foucault, above), the history of the category "analytical philosophy", and analytical philosophy's belated coming to grips with its ahistorical perspective (which might have actually been related to its international character) and its own history. (See also Nagel, above.) (RD)

Watson, Richard A. "What Is the History of Philosophy and Why Is It Important?", Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 40, no. 4, 2002: 525-528.

Zambelli, Paola. "From the Quaestiones to the Essais: On the Autonomy and Methods of the History of Philosophy," in: Science, Politics, and Social Practice: Essays on Marxism and Science, Philosophy of Culture and the Social Sciences: In Honor of Robert S. Cohen, edited by Kostas Gavroglu, John Stachel, Marx W. Wartofsky (Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995), pp. 373-390. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science; v. 164)

MORE ON G.W.F. HEGEL

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Lectures on the History of Philosophy; translated by E.S. Haldane; introduction to the Bison Book Edition by Frederick C. Beiser. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. 3 vols.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Introduction to the Lectures on the History of Philosophy, translated by T.M. Knox and A.V. Miller. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Lectures on the History of Philosophy: The Lectures of 1825-1826; edited by Robert F. Brown; translated by R.F. Brown and J.M. Stewart with the assistance of H.S. Harris. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990- .

Lauer, Quentin. Hegel's Idea of Philosophy with a New Translation of Hegel's Introduction to the History of Philosophy. 2nd ed. New York: Fordham University Press, 1983.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy: Introductory Lectures; edited and with a foreword by J. Glenn Gray; introduction by Tom Rockmore. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 1997. (Originally published: On Art, Religion, Philosophy. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.)

Hegel and the History of Philosophy: Proceedings of the 1972 Hegel Society of America Conference, edited by Joseph J. O'Malley, K.W. Algozin, Frederick G. Weiss. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974.

The first three essays are on Hegel's conception of the history of philosophy in general:

I. "The Pilgrimage of Truth through Time : The Conception of the History of Philosophy in G.W.F. Hegel"
A. Robert Caponigri, University of Notre Dame I

II. "Hegel as Historian of Philosophy"
Quentin Lauer, S.J., Fordham University 21

III. "The History of Philosophy and the Phenomenology of Spirit"
Joseph C. Flay, The Pennsylvania State University 47-61

Hegel's History of Philosophy: New Interpretations, edited by David A. Duquette. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003.

Barata-Moura, José. “History of Philosophy, Philosophy of History, and Ontology in Hegel’s Thought,” Nature, Society, and Thought, vol. 9, no. 3, July 1996, pp. 297-309.

ABSTRACT: It is shown how, in Hegel's term, the history of philosophy returns to a philosophy of history as the thought of what arrives and perfects itself in the trials of time. An ontology is, therefore, opened in which that which is, that which is in process, is the mind, is reason. Despite all the idealism of Hegel, his philosophy, reworked, becomes, perhaps, capable of inspiring new itineraries upon which to embark in our historical horizon. Contemporary materialism cannot do without dialectics.

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