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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 January 2009
Collingwood was hardly in danger. In 1939, when he wrote that, Festschrift volumes for British scholars were rare; for philosophers they were virtually non-existent. Whitehead had been given two, but then he had put himself at risk by going to America. Recently things have changed, and it is no longer safe to stay at home: half a dozen such volumes—at least—were published in honour of British philosophers between 1977 and 1980. But are they really a Bad Thing?
1 R. G. CoUingwood, An Autobiography (London: Oxford University Press, 1939), 118-119.
2 Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, My Recollections, 1848–1914 (London: Chatto &Windus, 1930, translation of Meine Erinnerungen), 216.
3 Preston King and B. C. Parekh (eds), Politics and Experience: Essays Presented to Professor Michael Oakeshott on the Occasion of his Retirement (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), I.
4 D. H. Mellor (ed.), Science, Belief and Behaviour: Essays in Honour of R. B. Braithwaite (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980, xii+227 pp., £10.50); D. F. Gustafson and B. L. Tapscott (eds), Body, Mind, and Method: Essays in Honor of Virgil C. Aldrich (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1979, xiii+307 pp., $28.95); D. J. Allerton, Edward Carney and David Holdcroft (eds), Function and Context in Linguistic Analysis: A Festschrift for William Haas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979, viii+228 pp., £9.75); Avishai Margalit (ed.), Meaning and Use: Papers Presented at the Second Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1979, xii + 297 pp., $38.50); Ernest Sosa (ed.), Essays on the Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1979, xi+388 pp., Dfl. 85); Ernest Sosa (ed.), The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher: Discussion and Replies (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1979, xi+236 pp., $26.00); Zak van Straaten (ed.), Philosophical Subjects: Essays Presented to P. F. Strawson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980, vii+302 pp., £12.50); G. F. Macdonald (ed.), Perception and Identity: Essays Presented to A. J. Ayer with his Replies to them (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979, vii+358 pp., £15.00).
5 Stewart Candlish, review of Intention and Intenationality: Essays in Honour of G. E. M. Anscombe, Cora Diamond and Jenny Teichman (eds), The Philosophical Quarterly 31 (1981), 170.
6 Jaakko Hintikka (ed.), Essays on Wittgenstein in Honour of G. H. von Wright, Acta Philosophica Fennica 28 (1976) (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing), 8.
7 D. H. Mellor, op. cit., vii-viii.
8 ‘Ultimately, this is the only way in which a truly distinguished scholar can be praised: not by praising him, but by being critically attentive to those problems which have absorbed so great a part of his time and attention’—from Preston King and B. C. Parekh, Introduction to Politics and Experience, 3; the mistake is the ‘only’.
9 R. G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938), 295–324.
10 D. H. Mellor, op. cit., ix.
11 Saul Kripke, ‘A Puzzle about Belief, in Avishai Margalit, op. cit., 250-251, 257, 267, 269.
12 Ernest Sosa, Essays on the Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm, Preface (unnumbered).
13 p. Y. Strawson Replies’, in Zak van Straaten, op. cit., 290.
14 Ibid., 265.
15 Hidé Ishiguro, ‘The Primitiveness of the Concept of a Person’, in Zak van Straaten, op. cit., 75.
16 Ibid., 73-74.
17 John McDowell, ‘Meaning, Communication, and Knowledge’, in Zak van Straaten, op. cit., 124.
18 See R. G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art, 248 and 250.
19 P. F. Strawson, ‘Analysis, Science, and Metaphysics’, in Richard Rorty (ed.), The Linguistic Turn (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967), 317. The reference to Collingwood is to The Principles of Art, 226-228, 235-236, 247-251.
20 I am very grateful for the help of Professor Christopher Kleinhenz, who gave me bibliographical information about the tradition of Festschrift-making. I used the following sources: R. Pick, ‘Some Thoughts on Festschriften and a Projected Subject Index’, German Life and Letters N.S., 12 (1959), 204-210; Lilly Melchior Roberts, ‘Legal Festschriften’, Law Library Journal 54 (1963), 47-60; Dorothy Rounds and Sterling Dow, ‘Festschriften’, Harvard Library Bulletin 6 (1954), 283-298; S. Griswold Morley, ‘The Development of the Homage-Volume’, Philological Quarterly 8 (1929), 61-68; Alfred Gudeman, ‘The Homage-Volume Once More’, Philological Quarterly 8 (1929), 335-338.
