Contents

pp v-vi

Dedication

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

Notes on contributors

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp 1-14

PART I

pp 15-16

1 - Philosophy and its history

pp 17-30

2 - The relationship of philosophy to its past

pp 31-48

3 - The historiography of philosophy: four genres

pp 49-76

4 - Why do we study the history of philosophy?

pp 77-102

5 - Five parables

pp 103-124

6 - Seven thinkers and how they grew: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz; Locke, Berkeley, Hume; Kant

pp 125-140

7 - ‘Interesting questions’ in the history of philosophy and elsewhere

pp 141-172

8 - The Divine Corporation and the history of ethics

pp 173-192

9 - The idea of negative liberty: philosophical and historical perspectives

pp 193-222

PART II

pp 223-224

10 - The sceptic in his place and time

pp 225-254

11 - The sceptic's two kinds of assent and the question of the possibility of knowledge

pp 255-278

12 - The concept of “trust” in the politics of John Locke

pp 279-302

13 - Berkeley and Hume: a question of influence

pp 303-328

14 - Frege: the early years

pp 329-356

15 - Moore's rejection of idealism

pp 357-374

16 - The nature of the proposition and the revolt against idealism

pp 375-398

Index

pp 399-403