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- Title
The idea of philosophical development.
- Authors
Renz, Ursula
- Abstract
This paper takes Udo Thiel's The Early Modern Subject: Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity from Descartes to Hume as an example of a study that aims to provide an account of a particular philosophical development, and discusses both the methodological requirements and the philosophical commitments connected with this ambition. In a first step, I distinguish between two fundamentally different ways of thinking about philosophical development, viz. externalism and internalism with regard to historical developments in philosophy, and I consider two ways of defining the two respective positions. Next, I specify certain methodological decisions that are relevant when writing a study on a particular philosophical development, and I characterize Udo Thiel's book with respect to them. While no definitive position is taken with regard to the issues raised, the paper does advocate a reflective approach to them.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY; THIEL, Udo; SELF-consciousness (Awareness); IDENTITY (Psychology); DESCARTES, Rene, 1596-1650
- Publication
Kant-Studien, 2016, Vol 107, Issue 3, p536
- ISSN
0022-8877
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/kant-2016-0040