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Verlag: Springer

Ort: Berlin

Jahr: 2013

Pages: 39-59

ISBN (Hardback): 9781349299683

Volle Referenz:

Stewart Candlish, "Philosophy and the tide of history", in: The historical turn in analytic philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 2013

Philosophy and the tide of history

Bertrand Russell's role in the rise of analytic philosophy

Stewart Candlish

pp. 39-59

in: Erich Reck (ed), The historical turn in analytic philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 2013

Abstrakt

The remarks I have chosen as an epigraph to this chapter encapsulate, neatly though perhaps inadvertently, a striking view of philosophy's relation to its own history: that writing the history of philosophy involves time off from philosophy itself. Through examination of an intertwined set of examples, an examination which gives us a new perspective on those examples, I shall try to display the indefensibility of this view, and show that lack of attention to our own history leads us into bad philosophy, characterized by complacency and hubris, generating misguided projects, false assumptions, and the overlooking of serious alternatives.

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Publication details

Verlag: Springer

Ort: Berlin

Jahr: 2013

Pages: 39-59

ISBN (Hardback): 9781349299683

Volle Referenz:

Stewart Candlish, "Philosophy and the tide of history", in: The historical turn in analytic philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 2013