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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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Originally published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland in 1985 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1985 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner

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