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Philosophy in History

Author: Richard Rorty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1984-11-08

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780521273305

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Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83.

Essays in the Philosophy of History

Author: R. G. Collingwood

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2020-07-14

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1528766857

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This collection of essays features some of the best of R. G. Collingwood’s work concerning the relationship between history and philosophy. First published posthumously in 1965, Essays in the Philosophy of History is a collection of R. G. Collingwood’s best work. He explores the philosophy of history, its aims, limitations, and relevance. Highly recommended for students of philosophy and those interested in historical cycles. The contents of this volume feature: - Croce's Philosophy of History - Are History and Science Different Kinds of Knowledge? - The Nature and Aims of a Philosophy of History - Oswald Spengler and the Theory of Historical Cycles - The Limits of Historical Knowledge - A Philosophy of History - A Philosophy of Progress

Essays in the Philosophy of History

Author: R. G. Collingwood

Publisher: White Press

Published: 2018-06-21

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781528704823

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Published posthumously in 1965, this book contains various essays by R. G. Collingwood concerning history, philosophy, and their relationship. The essays mostly concern the idea of a 'philosophy of history', exploring its aims, limitations, and relevance. Highly recommended for students of philosophy and collectors of vintage literature of this ilk. Contents include: "Croce's Philosophy of History," "Are History and Science Different Kinds of Knowledge?," "The Nature and Aims of a Philosophy of History," "Oswald Spengler and the Theory of Historical Cycles," "The Limits of Historical Knowledge," "A Philosophy of History," "A Philosophy of Progress," etc. Robin George Collingwood, FBA (1889 - 1943) was an English historian, philosopher, and archaeologist most famous for his philosophical works including "The Principles of Art" (1938) and the posthumously-published "The Idea of History" (1946). This fascinating volume will appeal to those with an interest in Collingwood's seminal work, and is not to be missed by students of philosophy and art. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume today in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History

Author: Jan Patočka

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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"Finally available in English, this book is a challenging meditation on the deep tensions between nihilism and liberation which prevail at the core of the "problematicity" defining the historical condition of modern man. Patocka is the most important Czech philosopher of this century and one of the greatest names in the history of the phenomenological movement". -- Jacques Taminiaux Boston University

Essays in Philosophy and Its History

Author: Wilfrid Sellars

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9401022917

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In pulling these essays together for inclusion in one volume I do not believe that I have done them violence. Since they originally appeared at different times and places they constitute a scattered object. Never theless, to the author's eye they have unities of theme and development which, if they fail to give them the true identity of the book, may (to adapt a metaphor from Hume) generate those smooth and easy transi tions of the imagination which arouse dispositions appropriate to sur veying such identical objects. For the juxtaposition of historical and systematic studies I make no apology. It has been suggested, with a friendly touch of malice, that if Science and Metaphysics consists, as its subtitle proclaims, of Variations on Kantian Themes, it would be no less accurate to sub-title my historical essays 'variations on Sellars ian themes'. But this is as it should be. Phi losophy is a continuing dialogue with one's contemporaries, living and dead, and if one fails to see oneself in one's respondent and one's re spondent in oneself, there is confrontation but no dialogue. The historian, as Collingwood points out, becomes Caesar's contemporary by learning to think Caesar's thoughts. And it is because Plato thought so many of our thoughts that he is our contemporary and companion.

Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science

Author: Pierre Duhem

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780872203082

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"Here, for the first time in English, are the philosophical essays - including the first statement of the "Duhem Thesis" - that formed the basis for Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, together with new translations of the historiographical essays presenting the equally celebrated "Continuity Thesis" by Pierre Duhem (1861-1916), a founding figure of the history and philosophy of science. Prefaced by an introduction on Duhem's intellectual development and continuing significance, here as well are important subsequent essays in which Duhem elaborated key concepts and critiqued such contemporaries as Henri Poincare and Ernst Mach. Together, these works offer a lively picture of the state of science at the turn of the century while addressing methodological issues that remain at the center of debate today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy

Author: J. B. Schneewind

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0199563012

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J.B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relation to earlier thinkers.

Essays in the History of Ideas

Author: Arthur O. Lovejoy

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2019-12-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1421432382

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Originally published in 1948. In the first essay of this collection, Lovejoy reflects on the nature, methods, and difficulties of the historiography of ideas. He maps out recurring phenomena in the history of ideas, which the essays illustrate. One phenomenon is the presence and influence of the same presuppositions or other operative "ideas" in very diverse provinces of thought and in different periods. Another is the role of semantic transitions and confusions, of shifts and of ambiguities in the meanings of terms, in the history of thought and taste. A third phenomenon is the internal tensions or waverings in the mind of almost every individual writer—sometimes discernible even in a single writing or on a single page—arising from conflicting ideas or incongruous propensities of feeling or taste to which the writer is susceptible. These essays do not contribute to metaphysical and epistemological questions; they are primarily historical.