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Historiography and the Formation of Philosophical Canons book cover

1st Edition

Historiography and the Formation of Philosophical Canons

Edited By Sandra Lapointe, Erich H. Reck Copyright 2023
350 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Editorial Introduction Sandra Lapointe and Erich H. Reck

1. Reimagining the Canon through the Lens of Mexican Philosophy Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr.

2. When Logic Goes East (and Far West) Julie Brumberg-Chaumont

3. How to Change a Philosophical Canon Lisa Shapiro

4. History as a Weapon: T.H. Green, Empiricism, and the New Science of Mind Alexander Klein

5. The Sociology of Philosophical Canons: The Case of Georg Simmel Martin Kusch

6. Canonizing Wittgenstein: Biography, English Male Homosocial Desire and Wittgenstein’s Queerness as a Cambridge Don, 1953-1977 David Loner

7. Interpretation and the History of Philosophy: A Pragmatic Account Jeffrey Elawani and Sandra Lapointe

8. Making Past Thinkers Speak to Us through Pragmatic Genealogies Matthieu Queloz

9. Historical Narratives and Transtemporal Problems in Philosophy Claude Panaccio

10. Philosophy and its Past: A Eudaimonistic Perspective Aaron Preston

11. Philosophical Histories, Dynamic Practices and Contested Canons Erich H. Reck

12. Let it Rip: An Analysis of Philosophical Canons and a Partial Argument for Being a Canon-Shredder Landon D. C. Elkind

13. From Popper to Standpoint Theory: Reason and the Canon Lydia Patton

14. Frankenstein in Athens: Digital History of Philosophy Comes Alive! Christopher D. Green

15. Separate Isles? On Historiography, Philosophy and Intellectual History Daniel Woolf

Biography

Sandra Lapointe is Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University. Dr. Lapointe's philosophical work spans the history of logic in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her current research projects all focus on knowledge mobilisation and innovation policy in the social sciences and humanities.

Erich H. Reck is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His research concerns the philosophy of mathematics, the history and philosophy of logic, and early analytic philosophy. He is also interested in meta-philosophy, Neo-Kantianism, and the philosophy of science and technology.

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