New book! History of Western Philosophy

Today we start a "new" book. It's actually from 2018, but I finally got around to reading it. I purchased it when it first came out at the AAR/SBL conference that year. It's been staring at me ever since. Here's the first snippet:

How should we respond to this “situated” character of historians? We should not, I think, despair of truth. It is true that all humans are historically situated individuals, and that it is impossible to shed all of one’s particularities. However, the various perspectives we bring to the issues are not always distorting lenses; sometimes they maybe just what is needed to bring the truth into clearer focus. It is also the case that historical truth is often complex; historians who seem to be disagreeing may be emphasizing different aspects of a fuller story. We should not respond to our situatedness by pretending to be completely “neutral” or “objective.” Rather, those who tell a historical story should honestly recognize and make clear the perspectives they bring to the issues, making it easier, both for themselves and for their audiences, to decide what might be distortion and what might be insight.—Evans, A History of Western Philosophy, 8–9