This volume presents stimulating and provocative work on how the history of philosophy is done and how it should be done, by Michael Frede, a pre-eminent figure in ancient philosophy until his early death in 2007. His Nellie Wallace lectures are published here for the first time, accompanied by three related articles.

Michael Frede, who died in 2007, held positions successively in the departments of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, at Princeton University, and at Oxford University, where he held the Chair of the History of Philosophy.
Katerina Ierodiakonou is Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Geneva and of the Department of Philosophy and History of Science of the University of Athens.
Jonathan Barnes is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at University of Paris IV - Sorbonne.

• Preface by Katerina Ierodiakonou


• I. The Historiography of Philosophy


• 1: Introduction


• 2: Different Forms of the Historiography of Philosophy


• 3: Doxography


• 4: The Philosophical History of Philosophy


• 5: The Historical History of Philosophy and Its Object


• 6: The Historian


• 7: The Delineation of the History of Philosophy


• 8: The Internal History


• 9: The Identification and Representation of Views


• 10: Explanation


• 11: The Account and the Explanation of the Historical Development


• 12: Historicism


• 13: The Uses of a Historical History of Philosophy


• Bibliographical Endnotes


• II. The Study of Ancient Philosophy


• III. The History of Philosophy as a Discipline


• IV. Doxographical, Philosophical, and Historical Forms of the History of Philosophy


• Postface