Philosophy and the Historical Perspective

Edited by Marcel van Ackeren

Proceedings of the British Academy

Features a variety of essays from leading experts in the field of philosophy
Details the history of philosophy in its entirety
Offers original contributions to current philosphical debates

Philosophy and the Historical Perspective

Edited by Marcel van Ackeren

Proceedings of the British Academy

Description

Does historical perspective contribute to today's philosophy? If so, what is the contribution of this perspective, and how does relating it to current philosophy bring this contribution about?

Since the rise of analytical philosophy, debates on historical perspective have intensified and widened in scope. In Philosophy and the Historical Perspective, these questions, and more, are answered via a range of philosophical strands, topics and debates. Based on the hope that philosophical debates could benefit from taking methodological and meta-philosophical questions into account, the volume concerns the historical perspective of current philosophical debates and as a result, the methods and nature of philosophy.

With contributions from leading experts, Philosophy and the Historical Perspective encompasses the history of philosophy, its sub-disciplines, and approaches and proposes that such questions deserve to be addressed in their own right, not just as an adjunct to other discussions.

Philosophy and the Historical Perspective

Edited by Marcel van Ackeren

Proceedings of the British Academy

Introduction, Marcel van Ackeren
1. What Have the Historians Ever Done for Us?, Hans-Johann Glock
2. Why We Need a Real History of Philosophy, John Marenbon
3. Progress and Historical Reflection in Philosophy, Thomas Grundmann
4. Philosophy and the Historical Perspective: A New Debate on an Old Topic, Marcel van Ackeren
5. Meaning, the History of Philosophy, and Analytical Philosophy: A Parmenidean Ascent, Michael Della Rocca
6. Reason in History, John Skorupski
7. The Liaison between Analytic and Ancient Philosophy and Its Consequences, Christof Rapp
8. The Alienation Effect in the Historiography of Philosophy, Dominik Perler
9. What Has History to Do with Philosophy? Insights from the Medieval Contemplative Tradition, Christina van Dyke
10. Hegel on the Political Significance of Collective Self-Deceit, Robert Pippin
11. The History of Philosophy Reveals that 'Great' Philosophy is disguised Moral Advocacy: A Nietzschean Case against the Socratic Canon in Philosophy, Brian Leiter
12. The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge Revisited: Relativism, Skepticism, Reductionism, Martin Kusch
13. On Philosophical Problems: Some Remarks on an Old Battlefield, Ursula Renz
14. History as an Interdisciplinary Dialogue - the Case of Philosophy and Economics, Lisa Maria Herzog

Philosophy and the Historical Perspective

Edited by Marcel van Ackeren

Proceedings of the British Academy

Author Information

Marcel van Ackeren is a Gerda Henkel Fellow (2017-2019) at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and "Privatdozent" at the University of Cologne, Germany. He studied philosophy and social sciences at Glasgow University and obtained his diploma in Political Theory from the University of Duisburg in 1996. After two years as visiting researcher in Oxford (1996-8), he obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bochum (2000). He did research in Cambridge (2017) and Berne (2003-5). From 2007 on, he was assistant professor in Cologne, where he obtained his postdoctoral qualification ("Habilitation") in 2010. His current research focuses on methodology in philosophy, especially on the historical perspective, and on demandingness.

Contributors:

Hans-Johann Glock, University of Zurich
Thomas Grundmann, University of Cologne
Lisa Maria Herzog, Ludwig Maximilian Universiy Munich
Martin Kusch, University of Vienna
John Marenbon, University of Cambridge
Dominik Perler, Free University of Berlin
Robert Pippin, University of Chicago
Christof Rapp, Ludwig Maximilian Universiy Munich
Ursula Renz, University of Klagenfurt
Michael Della Rocca, Yale University
John Skorupski, University of St Andrews
Marcel van Ackeren, University of Oxford
Christina van Dyke, Calvin College