Modern Challenges to Past Philosophy

Russell Pannier is Emeritus Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law, USA. He has published in the areas of philosophy of logic, metaphysics, jurisprudence, ethics, constitutional law, philosophy of religion, and decision theory. He has published several essays on some of those topics with Thomas D. Sullivan.Thomas D. Sullivan is Professor of Philosophy, University Ireland Professor, and Aquinas Chair in Philosophy and Theology at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, USA. Sullivan has won many teaching awards, local and national. He is the co-author, with Sandra Menssen, of The Agnostic Inquirer: Revelation from a Philosophical Standpoint (2007).

• Acknowledgements / Preface: The motive for the book and our plan for proceeding / Chapter I: Introduction / Chapter II: Two species of historicism: theoretical and practical / Chapter III: Why scientistic philosophers reject past philosophy: arguments and replies / Chapter IV: The analytic argument that that philosophers of old have nothing to say / Chapter V: Why bother with earlier philosophy? / Bibliography / Index