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I.F.P.A.R. RESEARCH SEMINARS (23 January 2025)
victorg, Sunday 19 January 2025 - 00:00:00 //
Thursday, 23 January 2025, 12:00–14:00
Speaker: Dr. MOGENS LÆRKE (senior researcher at the CNRS)
Title: ”What the devil do historians of philosophy think they are up to?”
Speaker: Dr. MOGENS LÆRKE (senior researcher at the CNRS)
Title: ”What the devil do historians of philosophy think they are up to?”
– online –
Meeting invite link:
https://meet.google.com/idm-boup-spy
No registration required.
Meeting invite link:
https://meet.google.com/idm-boup-spy
No registration required.
Abstract:
In this talk, I want to open a conversation about some really simple questions concerning the history of philosophy as a discipline. At a time when historiographical methodology has almost become a philosophical sub-discipline in its own right, and when a broad variety of methodological options inspired by different philosophers, schools, or contiguous disciplines proliferate, it becomes easy to lose sense of what exactly the discipline is basically concerned with. If a distant relative at a family gathering with little or no connection to philosophy asks you what exactly you are doing and why, in so many words, what does one reply? Most would say that it matters little for the discipline, or that the interesting discussions occur far beyond that point of entry. And yet, I will argue, it is crucial that we know how to systematically correlate whatever sophisticated methods and techniques we use with very basic intuitions about what exactly are our objects of investigation and what kind of knowledge we hope to obtain about them. So, sometimes we need to take a step back and ask these very simple questions and make sure that we know exactly what we are doing when going about our business and enquire about the fundamental epistemological status of the work we produce. So, for this talk, I will offer some reflections on three very basic questions about the methods and aims, the objects, and the history of the history of philosophy.
In this talk, I want to open a conversation about some really simple questions concerning the history of philosophy as a discipline. At a time when historiographical methodology has almost become a philosophical sub-discipline in its own right, and when a broad variety of methodological options inspired by different philosophers, schools, or contiguous disciplines proliferate, it becomes easy to lose sense of what exactly the discipline is basically concerned with. If a distant relative at a family gathering with little or no connection to philosophy asks you what exactly you are doing and why, in so many words, what does one reply? Most would say that it matters little for the discipline, or that the interesting discussions occur far beyond that point of entry. And yet, I will argue, it is crucial that we know how to systematically correlate whatever sophisticated methods and techniques we use with very basic intuitions about what exactly are our objects of investigation and what kind of knowledge we hope to obtain about them. So, sometimes we need to take a step back and ask these very simple questions and make sure that we know exactly what we are doing when going about our business and enquire about the fundamental epistemological status of the work we produce. So, for this talk, I will offer some reflections on three very basic questions about the methods and aims, the objects, and the history of the history of philosophy.