Philosophy, its History and Historiography
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ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCES VOLUME 1983
PHILOSOPHY, ITS HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY Edited by
A. J. HOLLAND Department of Philosophy, University of Lancaster
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11111 SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title: Philosophy, its history and historiography. (Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference; v. 1983) Includes index. \. Philosophy, Modem-Congresses. 2. Philosophy, Modem-Historiography-Congresses. 1. Holland, AJ. (Alan John), 1939. II. Series. B79\.P44 1985 190 85-11898 ISBN 978-94-011-7661-3 ISBN 978-94-009-5317-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-5317-8
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SERIES PREFACE
vii
PREFACE
lX
PART I: CONCEPTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY'S HISTORY JONATHAN REE/The End of Metaphysics: Philosophy's Supreme Fiction?
3
M. R. AYERs/'The End of Metaphysics' and the Historiography of Philosophy
27
ANTHONY MANSER/The End of Metaphysics: A Comment
41
JONATHAN REE/Reply to Ayers and Manser
47
MARY HESSE/Epistemology without Foundations
49
PHILIP PETTIT /Philosophy after Rorty
69
ADAM MORTON/Comment on Rorty
85
MA.RY HEssE/,Heterodox', 'Xenodox', and Hermeneutic Dialogue
87
PHILIP PETTIT / Reply to Mary Hesse
91
PART II: PHILOSOPHY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY G. MacDONALD ROSS/Occultism and Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
95
SIMON SCHAFFER/OCcultism and Reason
117
G. MacDONALD Ross/Reply to Simon Schaffer
145
GARY HATFIELD/First Philosophy and Natural Philosophy in Descartes
149
DESMOND M. CLARKE/Cartesian Science in France, 1660-1700
165
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RICHARD FRANCKS1Caricatures in the History of Philosophy: The Case of Spinoza
179
STUART BROWN/Leibniz's Break with Cartesian 'Rationalism'
195
EDWIN McCANN / Lockean Mechanism Appendix: Was Boyle an Occasionalist?
209 229
J. R. MILToN/Lockean Mechanism: A Comment
233
PART III: PHILOSOPHY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY M. A. STEWART / Hume and the "Metaphysical Argument A Priori"
243
NICHOLAS CAPALDI/The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Hume's Theory of the Self
271
ECKART FORSTER/ Kant's Refutation of Idealism
287
P. B. wooD/The Hagiography of Common Sense: Dugald Stewart's Account of the Life and Writings of Thomas Reid
305
INDEX
323
SERIES PREFACE
The Royal Institute of Philosophy has been sponsoring conferences in alternate years since 1969. These have from the start been intended to be of interest to persons who are not philosophers by profession. They have mainly focused on interdisciplinary areas such as the philosophies of psycholog
