7AAN2050 The Methodology of the History of Philosophy: MA Seminars

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1 7AAN2050 The Methodology of the History of Philosophy: MA Seminars Mondays , Room 306, Department of Philosophy, KCL. (a) Approaches 3 October The history of philosophy and philosophy. 10 October The history of philosophy and history. 17 October The history of philosophy and biography. (b) Sources 24 October Fragments and testimonia: how to do the history of philosophy when the original works have not survived. 31 October Pseudepigrapha: problems raised by works of unknown or disputed authorship. READING WEEK 14 November Using personal papers: drafts, letters, journals, commonplace books etc. 21 November Printing and publishing histories; analytical bibliography and its uses. (c) Interpretations 28 November Literary forms: dialogues, aphorisms and treatises. 5 December Studying philosophy in translation. 12 December Esoteric and exoteric works: concealment and dissimulation.

2 READING LIST A. Books Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas (Cambridge: CUP, 1999). Jorge J. E. Gracia, Philosophy and its History: Issues in Philosophical Historiography, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992). Jonathan Rée, Michael Ayers and Adam Westoby, Philosophy and its Past (Brighton: Harvester, 1978). B. Collections of Essays Richard Rorty, J. B. Schneewind and Quentin Skinner (eds.), Philosophy in History: Essays on the Historiography of Philosophy (Cambridge: CUP, 1984). Tom Sorell and G. A. J. Rogers (eds.), Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy (Oxford: OUP, 2005). C. Articles and Chapters in Books Peter Alexander, History of Philosophy: the Analytical Ideal, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society: Supplementary Volume, 62 (1988), Julia Annas, Ancient Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century, in Brian Leiter (ed.), The Future for Philosophy (Oxford: OUP, 2004), M. R. Ayers, The End of Metaphysics and the Historiography of Philosophy, in A. J. Holland (ed.), Philosophy: its History and Historiography (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985), Paul J. Bagley, On the Practice of Esotericism, Journal of the History of Ideas, 53 (1992), Jonathan Barnes, Introduction to The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle (Cambridge: CUP, 1995), xi xix. Martin Bell, The Relation between Literary Form and Philosophical Argument in Hume s Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, Hume Studies, 27 (2001), Silvia Berti, At the Roots of Unbelief, Journal of the History of Ideas, 56 (1995), James Conant, Philosophy and Biography, in James C. Klagge (ed.), Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy (Cambridge: CUP, 2001), Edwin Curley, Dialogues with the Dead, Synthese, 67 (1986), Jonathan Dancy, From Here the Author is Annihilated : Reflections on Philosophical Aspects of the Use of the Dialogue Form in Hume s Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, in Timothy Smiley (ed.),

3 Philosophical Dialogues, Plato, Hume, Wittgenstein (Oxford: OUP, 1995), Alan Donagan, The History of Philosophy as a Discipline, J. E. Malpas (ed.), The Philosophical Papers of Alan Donagan, Vol. I: Historical Understanding and the History of Philosophy (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1994), John Dunn, The Identity of the History of Ideas, Philosophy, 43 (1968), ; reprinted in John Dunn, Political Obligation in its Historical Context: Essays in Political Theory (Cambridge: CUP, 1980), Michael Frede, The History of Philosophy as a Discipline, Journal of Philosophy, 85 (1988), Michael Frede, Introduction: the Study of Ancient Philosophy, in Essays in Ancient Philosophy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), ix xxvii. Daniel Garber, Does History have a Future? Some Reflections on Bennett and Doing Philosophy Historically, in P. H. Hare (ed.), Doing Philosophy Historically (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1988), 27 43; reprinted in Daniel Garber, Descartes Embodied (Cambridge: CUP, 2001), Don Garrett, Philosophy and History in the History of Modern Philosophy, in Brian Leiter (ed.), The Future for Philosophy (Oxford: OUP, 2004), Hans-Johann Glock, History and Historiography, in Hans-Johann Glock, What is Analytic Philosophy? (Cambridge: CUP, 2008), Hans-Johann Glock, Analytic Philosophy and History: A Mismatch?, Mind, 117 (2008), Anthony Grafton, The History of Ideas: Precept and Practice, and Beyond, Journal of the History of Ideas, 67 (2006), 1 32; reprinted in Anthony Grafton, Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2009), Gordon Graham, Can there be History of Philosophy?, History and Theory, 21 (1982), Knud Haakonssen, The History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy: History or philosophy, in Knud Haakonssen (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy (Cambridge: CUP, 2006), vol. I, Christopher Janaway, History of Philosophy: the Analytical Ideal, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society: Supplementary Volume, 62 (1988), Charles H. Kahn, The Interpretation of Plato, in Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form (Cambridge: CUP, 1996), ch. 2.

4 Donald R. Kelley, The History of Philosophy, in The Descent of Ideas: the History of Intellectual History (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002), ch. 9. Robert Lamberton, The Aporrhetos Theoria and the Roles of Secrecy in the History of Platonism, in Hans G. Kippenberg and Guy G. Stroumsa (eds), Secrecy and Concealment: Studies in the History of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Religions (Leiden: Brill, 1995), Thomas M. Lennon, Theology and the God of the Philosopher, in Donald Rutherford (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy (Cambridge: CUP, 2006), ch. 10. Maurice Mandelbaum, The History of Ideas, Intellectual History, and the History of Philosophy, History and Theory, 5 (1965), Roy Mash, How Important for Philosophers is the History of Philosophy?, History and Theory, 26 (1987), Ray Monk, Philosophical Biography: The Very Idea, in James C. Klagge (ed.), Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy (Cambridge: CUP, 2001), Ray Monk, Philosophical Biography, in Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom (eds.), New British Philosophy: the Interviews (London: Routledge, 2002), Michael L. Morgan, Authorship and the History of Philosophy, Review of Metaphysics, 42 (1988), Michael L. Morgan, The Goals and Methods of the History of Philosophy, Review of Metaphysics, 40 (1987), Martha C. Nussbaum, Interlude I: Plato s Anti-Tragic Theater, in The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (Cambridge: CUP, 2001), John Passmore, The Idea of a History of Philosophy, History and Theory, 5 (1965), Richard Piercey, Doing Philosophy Historically, Review of Metaphysics, 56 (2003), Nicholas Rescher, The Interpretation of Philosophical Texts, in Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters (eds), Interpretation: Ways of Thinking about the Sciences and the Arts (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh UP, 2010), 91 9; also in Nicholas Rescher, Philosophical Reasoning (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), ch. 5. Michael Rosen, The History of Philosophy as Philosophy, in Brian Leiter and Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy (Oxford: OUP, 2007), Robert W. Sharples, The Problem of Sources, in Mary Louise Gill and Pierre Pellegrin (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009),

5 Quentin Skinner, Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas, History and Theory, 8 (1969), 3 53; reprinted in James Tully (ed.), Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and his Critics (Cambridge: CUP, 1988), Richard Sorabji, Ideas Leap Barriers: The Value of Historical Studies to Philosophy, in Dominic Scott (ed.), Maieusis: Essays on Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat (Oxford: OUP, 2007), Richard A. Watson, Method in the History of Philosophy, in Richard A. Watson, The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1987), Richard A. Watson, Descartes Scepticism: Logic vs. Biography, in R. H. Popkin and A. J. Vanderjagt (eds.), Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 1993) Richard A. Watson, Shadow History in Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 31 (1993), Bernard Williams, Descartes and the Historiography of Philosophy, in John Cottingham (ed.), Reason, Will and Sensation: Studies in Descartes' Metaphysics (Oxford: OUP, 1994), 19 27; reprinted in Bernard Williams, The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), Bernard Williams, Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, Philosophy, 75 (2000), ; reprinted in Bernard Williams, Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, ed. A. W. Moore, (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), Catherine Wilson, The History of Modern Philosophy, in Oliver Leaman (ed.), The Future of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1998), ch. 3. Margaret Wilson, History of Philosophy in Philosophy Today; and the Case of the Sensible Qualities, in Philosophical Review, 101 (1992), ; reprinted in Margaret Wilson, Ideas and Mechanism: Essays on Early Modern Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999), John W. Yolton, Some Remarks on the Historiography of Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 23 (1985), John W. Yolton, Is there a History of Philosophy? Some Difficulties and Suggestions, Synthese 67 (1986), Perez Zagorin, Libertinism, Unbelief and the Dissimulation of Philosophers, in Ways of Lying: Dissimulation, Persecution, and Conformity in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1990), ch. 12.