Historiography And The Formation Of Philosophical Canons

Author : Sandra Lapointe,Erich H. Reck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000896534

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Historiography and the Formation of Philosophical Canons by Sandra Lapointe,Erich H. Reck Pdf

This book presents a series of case studies and reflections on the historiographical assumptions, methods and approaches that shape the way in which philosophers construct their own past. The chapters in the volume advance discussion of the methods of historians of philosophy, while at the same time illustrating the various ways in which philosophical canons come into existence, debunking the myth of analytical philosophy’s ahistoricism and providing a deeper understanding of the roles historiographical devices play in philosophical thought. More importantly, the contributors attempt to understand history of philosophy in connection with other historical and historiographical approaches: contributors engage classical history of science, sociology of knowledge, history of psychology and historiography, in dialogue with historiographical practices in philosophy more narrowly construed. Additionally, select chapters adopt a more diverse perspective, by making place for non-Western approaches and for efforts to construe new philosophical narratives that do justice to the voice of women across the centuries. Historiography and the Formation of Philosophical Canons will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in history of philosophy, meta-philosophy, philosophy of history, historiography, intellectual history and sociology of knowledge.

Author : Adam Tamas Tuboly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350159211

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The History of Understanding in Analytic Philosophy by Adam Tamas Tuboly Pdf

Interpretive understanding of human behaviour, known as verstehen, underpins the divide between the social sciences and the natural sciences. Taking a historically orientated approach, this collection offers a fresh take on the development of understanding within analytic philosophy before, during and after logical empiricism. In doing so, it reinvigorates debates on the role of the social sciences within contemporary epistemology. Bringing together leading experts including Martin Kusch, Thomas Uebel, Karsten Stueber and Giuseppina D'Oro, it is an authoritative reference on the logical empiricists' philosophy of social science. Charting the various reformulations of verstehen as proposed by Wilhem Dilthey, Max Weber, R.G Collingwood and Peter Winch, the volume explores the reception of the social sciences prior to logical empiricism, before surveying the positive and negative critiques from Otto Neurath, Felix Kaufmann, Viktor Kraft and other logical empiricists. As such, chapters reveal that verstehen was not altogether rejected by the Vienna Circle, but was subject to various conceptual uses and misuses. Along with systematic historical coverage, the book situates verhesten within contemporary interdisciplinary developments in the field, shedding light on the 21st-century 'turn' to understanding among analytic philosophers and opening further lines of inquiry for philosophy of social science.

Author : Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781647825379

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How to Become Famous by Cass R. Sunstein Pdf

Fame is like lightning. Taylor Swift, Bob Dylan, Leonardo da Vinci, Jane Austen, Oprah Winfrey—all of them were struck. Why? What if they hadn't been? Consider the most famous music group in history. What would the world be like if the Beatles never existed? This was the question posed by the playful, thought-provoking, 2019 film Yesterday, in which a young, completely unknown singer starts performing Beatles hits to a world that has never heard them. Would the Fab Four's songs be as phenomenally popular as they are in our own Beatle-infused world? The movie asserts that they would, but is that true? Was the success of the Beatles inevitable due to their amazing, matchless talent? Maybe. It's hard to imagine our world without its stars, icons, and celebrities. They are part of our culture and history, seeming permanent and preordained. But as Harvard law professor (and passionate Beatles fan) Cass Sunstein shows in this startling book, that is far from the case. Focusing on both famous and forgotten (or simply overlooked) artists and luminaries in music, literature, business, science, politics, and other fields, he explores why some individuals become famous and others don't and offers a new understanding of the roles played by greatness, luck, and contingency in the achievement of fame. Sunstein examines recent research on informational cascades, network effects, and group polarization to probe the question of how people become famous. He explores what ends up in the history books and in the literary canon and how that changes radically over time. He delves into the rich and entertaining stories of a diverse cast of famous characters, from John Keats, William Blake, and Jane Austen to Bob Dylan, Ayn Rand, and Stan Lee—as well as John, Paul, George, and Ringo. How to Become Famous takes you on a fun, captivating, and at times profound journey that will forever change your perspective on the latest celebrity's "fifteen minutes of fame" and on what vaults some to the top—and leaves others in the dust.

Author : Landon D. C. Elkind
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031330261

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Bertrand Russell, Feminism, and Women Philosophers in his Circle by Landon D. C. Elkind Pdf

Author : Gerald Hartung,Valentin Pluder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110324822

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From Hegel to Windelband by Gerald Hartung,Valentin Pluder Pdf

In the 19th century, the history of philosophy becomes the history of a particular science. Modern philosophical historiography is an ambivalent project. On the one hand, we find an affirmative concept of Bildung through tradition and historical insight; on the other, there arises a critical reflection on historical education in the light of an emerging critique of modern culture. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the debate.

Author : Leo Catana
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047433361

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The Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy' by Leo Catana Pdf

Contextualizing the emergence of history of philosophy within eighteenth-century German Enlightenment, this book discusses the philosophical nature of the historiographical concept ‘system of philosophy’ and the concept’s influence upon the methods of history of philosophy and history of ideas.

Author : Ivan Matijašić
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110475432

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Shaping the Canons of Ancient Greek Historiography by Ivan Matijašić Pdf

The main focus of this book is the ancient formation and development of the canons of Greek historiography. It takes a fresh look on the modern debate on canonical literature and deals with Greek historiographical traditions in the works of ancient rhetors and literary critics. Writings on historiography by Cicero, Quintilian, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus are chiefly taken into account to explore the canons of Greek historians in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Ages. Essential in canon-formation was the concept of classicism which took shape in the Age of Augustus, but whose earlier developments can be traced back to Isocrates, a model rhetor according to Dionysius at the end of the 1st century BC. The analysis explores also late-antique authors of school treatises and progymnasmata, a field where historiography had a pedagogical function. Previous studies on canonical literature have rarely considered historiography. This book examines not only the works of ancient historians and their legacy, but also the relationship between historiography, literary criticism, and the rhetorical tradition.

Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438404615

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Philosophy and Its History by Jorge J. E. Gracia Pdf

This book is a systematic and comprehensive treatment of issues involved in philosophical historiography. It deals with such topics as 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. The book defends two main theses. The first is that the history of philosophy must be done philosophically, that is, it must include philosophical judgments. The second is that one way to bring a rapprochement between Anglo-American and Continental philosophy is through the study of the history of philosophy and its historiography. An extensive bibliography of pertinent materials and detailed indexes close the book.

Author : John Lange
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781497616363

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The Philosophy of Historiography by John Lange Pdf

A philosophical examination of the study of history, from its logic and semantics to its metaphysical and epistemological implications. This book is intended for the highly intelligent reader, who is interested in considering the difficulties, problems, and challenges of understanding and writing about the human past. It is popularly enough written, hopefully, to be a joy to read, and scholarly enough to be seriously instructive. The book has two major purposes, first, to give a reader an extensive, detailed overview of the field as it currently exists, and, second, to considerably enlarge the field itself, as it is the first book in the area to consider not only the epistemology of the field, but, in detail, its logic and semantics, its metaphysics, its axiology and its aesthetics.

Author : Jeanne Peijnenburg,Sander Verhaegh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031085932

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Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy by Jeanne Peijnenburg,Sander Verhaegh Pdf

This book contains a selection of papers from the workshop Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy held in October 2019 in Tilburg, the Netherlands. It is the first volume devoted to the role of women in early analytic philosophy. It discusses the ideas of ten female philosophers and covers a period of over a hundred years, beginning with the contribution to the Significs Movement by Victoria, Lady Welby in the second half of the nineteenth century, and ending with Ruth Barcan Marcus’s celebrated version of quantified modal logic after the Second World War. The book makes clear that women contributed substantially to the development of analytic philosophy in all areas of philosophy, from logic, epistemology, and philosophy of science, to ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of language. It illustrates that although women's voices were no different from men's as regards their scope and versatility, they had a much harder time being heard. The book is aimed at historians of philosophy and scholars in gender studies

Author : Alan J. Holland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9400953186

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Philosophy, Its History and Historiography by Alan J. Holland Pdf

Author : Ivan Matijašić
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110476279

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Shaping the Canons of Ancient Greek Historiography by Ivan Matijašić Pdf

The main focus of this book is the ancient formation and development of the canons of Greek historiography. It takes a fresh look on the modern debate on canonical literature and deals with Greek historiographical traditions in the works of ancient rhetors and literary critics. Writings on historiography by Cicero, Quintilian, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus are chiefly taken into account to explore the canons of Greek historians in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Ages. Essential in canon-formation was the concept of classicism which took shape in the Age of Augustus, but whose earlier developments can be traced back to Isocrates, a model rhetor according to Dionysius at the end of the 1st century BC. The analysis explores also late-antique authors of school treatises and progymnasmata, a field where historiography had a pedagogical function. Previous studies on canonical literature have rarely considered historiography. This book examines not only the works of ancient historians and their legacy, but also the relationship between historiography, literary criticism, and the rhetorical tradition.

Author : R. G. Collingwood
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789124316

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The Idea of History by R. G. Collingwood Pdf

For many years before his death in 1943, R. G. Collingwood, who was both a Professor of Philosophy at Oxford and a practicing historian, was engaged in what he intended as a major contribution to the philosophy of history. The Idea of History, first published in 1946, was put together from the author’s uncompleted manuscript and edited with a critical preface by Professor T. M. Knox. A large part of the book describes how the modern idea of history has grown up from the time of Herodotus to the present day. A final section consists of a number of essays on such subjects as the nature of history, historical method, historical evidence, and progress. Of the author and the book, Hans Kohn wrote in The New York Times: ‘The wit of his learning and the many-sidedness of his gifts as a philosopher, scholar and artist are manifest....an example of scholarship and depth presented with ease and grace.’ In The Philosophical Review, Arthur E. Murphy reported: ‘I found it a pleasure to read, a firsthand, enlightening, and intellectually stimulating treatment of a philosophically important subject....It has been a long time since I have encountered a contemporary work of which as much could properly be said....There is much to be learned from it.’

Author : Alan J. Holland
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789400953178

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Philosophy, its History and Historiography by Alan J. Holland Pdf

The Royal Institute of Philosophy has been sponsoring conferences in alternate years since 1969. These have from the start been intended to be of interest to persons who are not philosophers by profession. They have mainly focused on interdisciplinary areas such as the philosophies of psychology, education and the social sciences. The volumes arising from these conferences have included discussions between philosophers and distinguished practitioners of other disciplines relevant to the chosen topic. Beginning with the 1979 conference on 'Law, Morality and Rights' and the 1981 conference on 'Space, Time and Causality' these volumes are now constituted as a series. It is h

Author : Orazio Cappello
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004389878

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The School of Doubt by Orazio Cappello Pdf

In The School of Doubt Orazio Cappello presents a study of Cicero’s fragmentary philosophical treatise on sense-perception, the Academica, examining the dialogue’s literary, historiographical and theoretical texture.