I. Introduction: On the Nature of Philosophic Historiography --; Historical Analysis and Applied Logic --; Sociology of Knowledge, and Philosophic Understanding as Dialexis or Verstaendigung --; Interpretation, Query, and the Categorization of History --; The Metahistory of Modes in Philosophic Historiography --; II. On the Unity of Systematic Philosophy and History of Philosophy --; III. The Interpretive Turn from Kant to Derrida: A Critique --; Kant: Formal Interpretation Theory --; 19th Century Contextual Interpretation Theory: Hegel and Marx --; Pragmatism and the Development of Contextual Interpretation: John Dewey and C.I. Lewis --; Sociology of Knowledge and the Development of Contextual Interpretation: Mannheim --; Interpretation Theory from Phenomenology to Hermeneutics: Husserl, Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer --; Hermeneutics and Critical Theory: The Habermas-Gadamer Debate --; Interpretation as Deconstruction: Derrida --; Why Deconstruction? --; Conclusion --; IV. Intellectual History as a Tool of Philosophy --; The Social Nature of Reflective and Expressive Products --; Some Unphilosophic Uses of Past Philosophies --; Can there be Specialized History of Pure Philosophy? --; V. Hermeneutic Modes, Ancient and Modern --; The Expression of Universal Meanings --; The Expression of Individual Meanings --; The Expression of Physical Meanings --; The Expression of Ideal Meanings --; VI. Derrida and the Question of Philosophy's History --; The Satiric View of History --; Against Logocentrism --; The Challenge --; VII. Cassirer's Theory of History --; Cassirer's Theory of History --; The Function of History: Cassirer's Idiosyncratic View. Various Views on the Function of History --; Cassirer's View of How History Functions: Two Ways --; The Materials of a History --; The Ends of History --; Cassirer's Method --; Historical Objectivity --; Selecting the Facts: Historical Relevance --; Historical Truth --; Historical Causation: Some Confusions about Historical Causation --; How Cassirer Actually Writes History --; Why Hasn't Cassirer's Peculiar View of History Been Noticed? --; How Cassirer's Underlying Assumption Requires his Theory of History to be Idiosyncratic --; An Evaluation of Cassirer --; VIII. The Philosophic Historiography of J.H. Randall --; Philosophy, History and System --; Human Reagents in Cultural Change --; What Distinguishes History of Philosophy from Philosophy --; IX. History and Philosophy of Science: Necessary Partners or Merely Roommates? --; The Attack on Logical Empiricism and the Rise of Historical Relativism --; History of Science and Philosophy of Science, a New Partnership --; Epistemologism, Realism, and Interpretationism --; X. The Eighteenth Century Assumptions of Analytic Aesthetics.