The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge
This volume brings together a number of authors that see themselves as contribu tors to, or critical commentators on, a new field that has recently emerged within the sociology of knowledge. This new field is 'the Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge' (S
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The New Synthese Historical Library Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy VOLUME
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Managing Editor: SIMO KNUUTTlLA,
University of Helsinki
Associate Editors: University of Chicago University of London
DANIEL ELLIOT GARBER, RICHARD SORABJI,
Editorial Consultants: JAN A. AERTSEN, Thomas-Institut, Universitiit zu Koln, Germany ROGER ARIEW, Virginia Polytechnic Institute E. JENNIFER ASHWORTH, University of Waterloo MICHAEL AYERS, Wadham College, Oxford GAIL FINE, Cornell University R.J. HANKINSON, University of Texas JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, Finnish Academy PAUL HOFFMAN, University of California, Riverside DAVID KONSTAN, Brown University RICHARD H. KRAUT, Northwestern University, Evanston ALAIN DE LIBERA, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne JOHN E. MURDOCH, Harvard University DAVID FATE NORTON, McGill University Luco OBERTELLO, Universita degli Studi di Genova ELEONORE STUMP, St. Louis University ALLEN WOOD,
Cornell University
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
THE SOCIOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE
Edited by
MARTIN KUSCH University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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ISBN 978-90-481-5390-9 ISBN 978-94-015-9399-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-9399-1
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T ABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
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MARTIN KUSCH / Introduction
IX
DA VID BLOOR / Wittgenstein as a Conservative Thinker MARTIN KUSCH / The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge: A Case Study and a Defense
15
JARMO PULKKINEN / Why did Gottlob Frege and Ernst Schroder Fail in their Attempts to Persuade German Philosophers of the Virtues of Mathematical Logic?
39
CRISTINA CHIMISSO / Painting an Icon: Gaston Bachelard and the Philosophical Beard
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BARRY SANDYWELL / The Agonistic Ethic and the the Spirit of Inquiry: On the Greek Origins of Theorizing
93
MATTHEW CHEW / Politics and Patterns of Developing Indigenous Knowledge under Western Disciplinary Compartmentalization: The Case of Philosophical Schools in Modem China and Japan
125
RANDALL COLLINS / Reflexivity and Social Embeddedness in the History of Ethical Philosophies
155
VOLKER PECKHAUS / The Contextualism of Philosophy
179
JORGE J.E. GRACIA / Sociological Accounts and the History of Philosophy
193
Index
213
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am indebted to a number of friends and colleagues. Simo Knuuttila first invited me to edit this volume in 1994, and he has given useful advice and support throughout the project. The contributors to this