Marcel van Ackeren is a Gerda Henkel Fellow (2017-2019) at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and "Privatdozent" at the University of Cologne, Germany. He studied philosophy and social sciences at Glasgow University and obtained his diploma in Political Theory from the University of Duisburg in 1996. After two years as visiting researcher in Oxford (1996-8), he obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bochum (2000). He did research in Cambridge (2017) and Berne (2003-5). From 2007 on, he was assistant professor in Cologne, where he obtained his postdoctoral qualification ("Habilitation") in 2010. His current research focuses on methodology in philosophy, especially on the historical perspective, and on demandingness.

this volume contains contributions that genuinely move forward research on the foundations of methodology in the history of philosophy

• Introduction1: Hans-Johann Glock: What Have the Historians Ever Done for Us?2: John Marenbon: Why We Need a Real History of Philosophy3: Thomas Grundmann: Progress and Historical Reflection in Philosophy4: Marcel van Ackeren: Philosophy and the Historical Perspective: A New Debate on an Old Topic5: Michael Della Rocca: Meaning, the History of Philosophy, and Analytical Philosophy: A Parmenidean Ascent6: John Skorupski: Reason in History7: Christof Rapp: The Liaison between Analytic and Ancient Philosophy and Its Consequences8: Dominik Perler: The Alienation Effect in the Historiography of Philosophy9: Christina van Dyke: What Has History to Do with Philosophy? Insights from the Medieval Contemplative Tradition10: Robert Pippin: Hegel on the Political Significance of Collective Self-Deceit11: Brian Leiter: The History of Philosophy Reveals that 'Great' Philosophy is disguised Moral Advocacy: A Nietzschean Case against the Socratic Canon in Philosophy12: Martin Kusch: The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge Revisited: Relativism, Skepticism, Reductionism13: Ursula Renz: On Philosophical Problems: Some Remarks on an Old Battlefield14: Lisa Maria Herzog: History as an Interdisciplinary Dialogue - the Case of Philosophy and Economics

Marcel van Ackeren is a Gerda Henkel Fellow (2017-2019) at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and "Privatdozent" at the University of Cologne, Germany. He studied philosophy and social sciences at Glasgow University and obtained his diploma in Political Theory from the University of Duisburg in 1996. After two years as visiting researcher in Oxford (1996-8), he obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bochum (2000). He did research in Cambridge (2017) and Berne (2003-5). From 2007 on, he was assistant professor in Cologne, where he obtained his postdoctoral qualification ("Habilitation") in 2010. His current research focuses on methodology in philosophy, especially on the historical perspective, and on demandingness.

this volume contains contributions that genuinely move forward research on the foundations of methodology in the history of philosophy

• Introduction1: Hans-Johann Glock: What Have the Historians Ever Done for Us?2: John Marenbon: Why We Need a Real History of Philosophy3: Thomas Grundmann: Progress and Historical Reflection in Philosophy4: Marcel van Ackeren: Philosophy and the Historical Perspective: A New Debate on an Old Topic5: Michael Della Rocca: Meaning, the History of Philosophy, and Analytical Philosophy: A Parmenidean Ascent6: John Skorupski: Reason in History7: Christof Rapp: The Liaison between Analytic and Ancient Philosophy and Its Consequences8: Dominik Perler: The Alienation Effect in the Historiography of Philosophy9: Christina van Dyke: What Has History to Do with Philosophy? Insights from the Medieval Contemplative Tradition10: Robert Pippin: Hegel on the Political Significance of Collective Self-Deceit11: Brian Leiter: The History of Philosophy Reveals that 'Great' Philosophy is disguised Moral Advocacy: A Nietzschean Case against the Socratic Canon in Philosophy12: Martin Kusch: The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge Revisited: Relativism, Skepticism, Reductionism13: Ursula Renz: On Philosophical Problems: Some Remarks on an Old Battlefield14: Lisa Maria Herzog: History as an Interdisciplinary Dialogue - the Case of Philosophy and Economics

Marcel van Ackeren is a Gerda Henkel Fellow (2017-2019) at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and "Privatdozent" at the University of Cologne, Germany. He studied philosophy and social sciences at Glasgow University and obtained his diploma in Political Theory from the University of Duisburg in 1996. After two years as visiting researcher in Oxford (1996-8), he obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bochum (2000). He did research in Cambridge (2017) and Berne (2003-5). From 2007 on, he was assistant professor in Cologne, where he obtained his postdoctoral qualification ("Habilitation") in 2010. His current research focuses on methodology in philosophy, especially on the historical perspective, and on demandingness.

this volume contains contributions that genuinely move forward research on the foundations of methodology in the history of philosophy

• Introduction1: Hans-Johann Glock: What Have the Historians Ever Done for Us?2: John Marenbon: Why We Need a Real History of Philosophy3: Thomas Grundmann: Progress and Historical Reflection in Philosophy4: Marcel van Ackeren: Philosophy and the Historical Perspective: A New Debate on an Old Topic5: Michael Della Rocca: Meaning, the History of Philosophy, and Analytical Philosophy: A Parmenidean Ascent6: John Skorupski: Reason in History7: Christof Rapp: The Liaison between Analytic and Ancient Philosophy and Its Consequences8: Dominik Perler: The Alienation Effect in the Historiography of Philosophy9: Christina van Dyke: What Has History to Do with Philosophy? Insights from the Medieval Contemplative Tradition10: Robert Pippin: Hegel on the Political Significance of Collective Self-Deceit11: Brian Leiter: The History of Philosophy Reveals that 'Great' Philosophy is disguised Moral Advocacy: A Nietzschean Case against the Socratic Canon in Philosophy12: Martin Kusch: The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge Revisited: Relativism, Skepticism, Reductionism13: Ursula Renz: On Philosophical Problems: Some Remarks on an Old Battlefield14: Lisa Maria Herzog: History as an Interdisciplinary Dialogue - the Case of Philosophy and Economics