Tales of the Mighty Dead, Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of Intentionality
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loginThis is a work in the history of systematic philosophy, and it is itself animated by a systematic philosophical aspiration. In my earlier book Making It Explicit (and even more in the argumentative path drawn from it in Articulating Reasons), systematic considerations were in the fore- ground, with historical ones relegated to the background. This book re- verses that figure-ground gestalt, bringing a reading of the philosophical tradition to the fore. Whereas the other books were heavily system- atic and only lightly historical, this one is heavily historical and only lightly systematic. The interactions it seeks to establish between text and interpretation, however, between the historical and the philosophi- cal, between points of view discerned or attributed and those adopted or endorsed, are sufficiently intricate that it is worth saying something somewhat systematic about the conception of philosophical historiogra- phy that governs it, if the sort of enterprise being undertaken is to be properly understood.
