Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2014
1 Objectivity, of course, requires critical-rational philosophers to articulate and express their understanding of other ideas in as accessible and assessable ways as they can.
2 It is exactly the lack of a consciously interpretative contemporaneity that renders a comparative study subject to the fallacy of anachronism.
3 The contributions to this edited volume appear in the alphabetic order of the authors' surnames. Neutral as it may be, this arrangement does not bespeak a certain thematic organization.