Tables of Contents for Philosophy in History

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Preface

Introduction

Part I: 1. Philosophy and its history Charles Taylor

2. The relationship of philosophy to its past Alasdair MacIntyre

3. The historiography of philosophy: four genres Richard Rorty

4. Why do we study the history of philosophy? Lorenz Krü

ger

5. Five parables Ian Hacking

6. Seven thinkers and how they grew: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz

Locke, Berkeley, Hume

Kant Bruce Kuklick

7. 'Interesting questions' in the history of philosophy and elsewhere Wolf Lepenies

8. The divine corporation and the history of ethics J. B. Schneewind

9. The idea of negative liberty: philosophical and historical perspectives Quentin Skinner

Part II: 10. The sceptic in his place and time M. F. Burnyeat

11. The sceptic's two kinds of assent and the question of the possibility of knowledge Michael Frede

12. The concept of 'trust' in the politics of John Locke John Dunn

13. Berkeley and Hume: a question of influence Michael Ayres

14. Frege: the early years Hans Sluga

15. Moore's rejection of idealism Thomas Baldwin

16. The nature of the proposition and the revolt against idealism Peter Hylton

Index.