Teaching new histories of philosophy : proceedings of a conference, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, April 4-6, 2003

DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2002/03 I had the privilege of being Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor of Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching in the Princeton University Center for Human Values. As part of my responsibilities in that position I organized a conference called Teaching New Histories of Philosophy. The conference papers and comments, as well as a record of some of the discussion, are published here. In the past few decades a large amount of work has been done to set the major works of modern philosophy in their varied contexts. Historical classics have been reinterpreted in the light of their relations to the works of authors we have generally considered minor, to nonphilosophical writings, and to religious, social, political, and scientific changes and events. No definitive synthesis of new interpretations has emerged, and perhaps none is to be expected. But the new material should affect the ways in which we teach the history of philosophy from Montaigne and Descartes to today. --- viii, 388 p. ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references Philosophy and the scientific revolution / Daniel Garber -- Old history and introductory teaching in early modern philosophy : a response to Daniel Garber / Lisa Downing -- Meaning and metaphysics / Susan Neiman -- Evil and wonder in early modern philosophy : a response to Susan Neiman / Mark Larrimore -- The forgetting of gender / Nancy Tuana -- The forgetting of gender and the new histories of philosophy : a response to Nancy Tuana / Eileen O'Neill -- The idea of early modern philosophy / Knud Haakonssen -- Response to Knud Haakonssen / Jeffrey Edwards -- Arguments over obligation : teaching time and place in moral philosophy / Ian Hunter -- Response to Ian Hunter / T.J. Hochstrasser -- Teaching the history of moral philosophy / J.B. Schneewind -- Historicism, moral judgment, and the good life : a response to J.B. Schneewind / Jennifer A. Herdt -- Integrating history of philosophy with history of science after Kant / Michael Friedman -- Response to Michael Friedman / Juliet Floyd -- Thought versus history : reflections on a French problem / Denis Kambouchner -- Response to Denis Kambouchner / Béatrice Longuenesse -- Teaching the history of philosophy in 19th-century Germany / Ulrich Johannes Schneider -- Response to Ulrich Johannes Schneider / Karl Ameriks -- Comment : philosophy in practice / Lorraine Daston -- A note from inside the teapot / Anthony Grafton -- Philosophy, history of philosophy, and L'histoire de l'esprit humain : a historiographical question and problem for philosophers / Jonathan Israel -- History and/or philosophy / Donald R. Kelly -- Historians look at the new histories of philosophy : roundtable discussion