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British Hermeneutics And The Genesis Of Empiricism, Gary Shapiro
British Hermeneutics And The Genesis Of Empiricism, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
In an essay of 1961, "The History of Philosophy and Historicity," Paul Ricoeur has suggested that the narratives which we construct of the history of philosophy tend either toward excessive integration or disintegration. On the first alternative we tend to view the history of philosophy, or a segment of it, as a succession of systems understood from the perspective of that system closest to our own philosophical inclinations; on the second alternative we tend toward a dispersive attention toward specific problems, thinkers, and texts. Neither approach is satisfying, but Ricoeur maintains that in the history of philosophy, as contrasted to …
The Man Of Letters And The Author Of Nature: Hume On Philosophical Discourse, Gary Shapiro
The Man Of Letters And The Author Of Nature: Hume On Philosophical Discourse, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Recent philosophy in the English language manifests a concern with the status and nature of the philosophical text which seems virtually unprecedented in Anglo-American thought. The very suggestion that the concept of the philosophical text ought to be taken seriously by philosophers (as opposed to publishers or literary historians) appears to be a recent addition to our world of discourse. For in the dominant tradition of Anglo-American philosophy, the philosophical enterprise has usually been construed as an open-ended inquiry, a posing and sharpening of questions, counter-questions, objections, and refutations in which the important thing is doing philosophy. So far this …