Introduction

Ryoichi Itagaki

John Blackmore

Shogo Tanaka

pp. 1-27

in: John Blackmore, Shogo Tanaka (eds), Ernst Mach's Vienna 1895–1930, Berlin, Springer, 2001

Abstract

While both philosophers and historians almost always love truth and the search for truth, and both often carry out extensive research, there can be noticeable differences when historians write about the history of philosophy and when philosophers write about it. Philosophers often look at the past with categories and interests taken from the present or at the least from the recent past, but many historians, especially those who love research for its own sake, will try to look at the past from a perspective either from that period or from even earlier. Both camps look for roots, but view them with different lenses and presuppositions.