The Pursuit of Philosophy

Eleven Cambridge academics approach philosophy from various fields, to broaden its practical and theoretical applications. Guides a tour through various academic departments—including history, political science, classics, law, and English—to ferret out the philosophy in their syllabi, and to show philosophy's symbiotic relationship with other fields Provides a map of what philosophy is considered to be at Cambridge in the early twenty-first century, about a hundred years after the "founding fathers" of analytic philosophy reigned at Cambridge Offers useful new directions for the study and application of philosophy, and how other fields can influence them

Notes on Contributors vii Introduction: Philosophy, Its Pitfalls, Some Rescue Plans, and Their Complications Alexis Papazoglou 1 1 Philosophy, Logic, Science, History Tim Crane 19 2 Philosophy and Its Pitfalls Jane Heal 37 3 A Surfeit of Naturalism Tim Lewens 45 4 What Is Realistic Political Philosophy? David Runciman 57 5 Bedlam or Parnassus: The Verse Idea Simon Jarvis 69 6 Philosophy, Early Modern Intellectual History, and the History of Philosophy Michael Edwards 81 7 Goals, Origins, Disciplines Raymond Geuss 95 8 Falling In and Out of Love with Philosophy John Forrester 111 9 Forms of Reflection, Imagination, and the Love of Wisdom Douglas Hedley 127 10 What Is Legal Philosophy? Matthew H. Kramer 139 11 The Cambridge Revolt Against Idealism: Was There Ever an Eden? Fraser Macbride 149 Index 161