J. B. Schneewind, Editor

This volume contains the papers, comments and a record of some of the discussion from the "Teaching New Histories of Philosophy" conference sponsored by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. The conference was held in April 2003 for the purpose of exploring the extent to which undergraduate courses on the history of modern philosophy continue to provide both an adequate introduction to the subject and necessary preparation for advanced work in the field. The conference was motivated by an awareness of the large amount of work done in the past few decades that situates the major works of modern philosophy in their varied contexts. Does the incorporation of the best current understandings of the contexts of the works taught help or impede the preparation of students for continuing work in upper division courses? How is the history of modern philosophy to be introduced to students when no definitive synthesis of new interpretations has emerged, and perhaps none is to be expected? The publication of this volumes was supported by the University Center for Human Values and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. Free electronic access to the entire text is being provided by the Philosophy Documentation Center.

Table of Contents

• J. B. Schneewind, Preface
• Daniel Garber, Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution
• Lisa Downing, Old History and Introductory Teaching in Early Modern Philosophy: A Response to Daniel Garber
• Susan Neiman, Meaning and Metaphysics
• Mark Larrimore, Evil and Wonder in Early Modern Philosophy: A Response to Mark Larrimore
• Nancy Tuana, The Forgetting of Gender
• Eileen O'Neill, The Forgetting of Gender and the New Histories of Philosophy: A Response to Nancy Tuana
• Knud Haakonssen, The Idea of Early Modern Philosophy
• Jeffrey Edwards, Response to Knud Haakonssen
• Ian Hunter, Arguments over Obligation: Teaching Time and Place in Moral Philosophy
• T. J. Hochstrasser, Response to Ian Hunter
• J. B. Schneewind, Teaching the History of Moral Philosophy
• Jennifer A. Herdt, Historicism, Moral Judgment, and the Good Life: A Response to J. B. Schneewind
• Micheal Friedman, Integrating History of Philosophy with History of Science after Kant
• Juliet Floyd, Response to Micheal Friedman
• Denis Kambouchner, Thought versus History: Reflections on a French Problem
• Béatrice Longuenesse, Response to Denis Kambouchner
• Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Teaching the History of Philosophy in 19th-Century Germany
• Karl Ameriks, Response to Ulrich Johannes Schneider
• Lorraine Daston, Comment: Philosophy in Practice
• Anthony Grafton, A Note from Inside the Teapot
• Jonathan Israel, Philosophy, History of Philosophy, and l'Histoire de l'Esprit Humain: A Historiographical Question and Problem for Philosophers
• Donald R. Kelley, History and/or Philosophy
• Roundtable Discussion, Historians Look at the New Histories of Philosophy

· ISBN 0-9763726-0-6 · Published 2004 by the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University · Softbound · 388 pages · Print copies available from the University Center for Human Values ·

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