Philosophy and its History: Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy

Introduction Mogens Laerke, Justin E.H. Smith, and Eric Schliesser Chapter 1 : The Anthropological Analogy and the Constitution of Historical Perspectivism Mogens Laerke Chapter 2 : The History of Philosophy as Past and as Process Justin E. H. Smith Chapter 3 : Philosophy and Genealogy. Ways of writing history of philosophy. Koen Vermeir Chapter 4 : Understanding the Argument Through Then-Current Public Debates or My Detective Method of History of Philosophy Ursula Goldenbaum Chapter 5: The Contingency of Philosophical Problems Joanne Waugh and Roger Ariew Chapter 6 : Philosophical Problems in the History of Philosophy: What are They? Leo Catana Chapter 7: Philosophizing Historically/Historicizing Philosophy: Some Spinozistic Reflections Julie R. Klein Chapter 8 : Is the History of Philosophy a Family Affair? The Examples of Malebranche and Locke in the Cousinian School Delphine Kolesnik-Antoine Chapter 9 : The Taming of Philosophy Michael Della Rocca Chapter 10 : Philosophic Prophecy Eric Schliesser Chapter 11 : Philosophical Systems and their History Alan Nelson Chapter 12 : Charitable Interpretations and the Political Domestication of Spinoza, or, Benedict in the Land of the Secular Imagination Yitzhak Melamed Chapter 13 : Mediating between Past and Present: Descartes, Newton, and Contemporary Structural Realism Mary Domski Chapter 14 : What Has History of Science to Do with History of Philosophy? Tad M. Schmaltz Bibliography