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The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation
Author | : Paul A. Roth |
Publsiher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780810140899 |
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In The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Paul A. Roth resolves disputes persisting since the nineteenth century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their logic explicit, and revealing how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible. Roth situates narrative explanations within a naturalistic framework and develops a nonrealist (irrealist) metaphysics and epistemology of history—arguing that there exists no one fixed past, but many pasts. The book includes a novel reading of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, showing how it offers a narrative explanation of theory change in science. This book will be of interest to researchers in historiography, philosophy of history, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, and epistemology.
Logic of Historical Explanation
Author | : Clayton Roberts |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271042990 |
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In this book the author provides a key to understanding the role of covering laws in historical explanation. He does so by distinguishing between their use at the macro - and micro- levels, a distinction that no other scholar has made. He then sets forth the logic of an explanatory narrative, explores the nature of rational explanation, and distinguishes the logic of historical interpretation from the logic of historical explanation.
Laws and Explanation in History
Author | : William H. Dray |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4379122 |
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Historical Explanation
Author | : Gunnar Schumann |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2023-11-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781000997965 |
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This book is concerned with the appropriate form of explanations in historiography and the social sciences. It combines action theory and philosophy of historiography and develops a theory of teleological explanations of human actions based on late-Wittgensteinian and Ordinary Language Philosophy insights. In philosophy of action, many philosophers favor causal theories of human action. Additionally, in current philosophy of historiography the majority view is that historians should explain historical phenomena by their causes. This book pushes back against these mainstream views by reviving an anti-causal view of explanation of current and past human actions. The author argues that disciplines that deal with human actions require a certain form of explanation, namely a teleological or intentional explanation. This means that past human actions and their results will have to be explained by reasons of agents, not by causes. Therefore, historiography employs a method of explanation which is in stark contrast to the sciences. The author thus proposes a Verstehen (understanding) approach in historiography and the social sciences. Historical Explanation will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of action, philosophy of history, and philosophy of the social sciences.
The Nature of Historical Explanation
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Author | : Patrick L. Gardiner |
Publsiher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313249768 |
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Gardiner approaches the idea of a philosophy of history by first giving an outline of the regularity interpretation of explanation. How far it is possible to regard all historical explanations, or even some, as approximating this pattern, how far the objections philosophers have marshalled against such an assimilation are justified, how far the alternative interpretations suggested correspond to the historian's actual procedure in certain cases; these represent the kind of questions that will have to be considered. By keeping the actual practice of historians constantly in view, he believes that the reader will be able to see some of the disputes that have raged concerning the philosophy of historyin better perspective.
The Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts
Author | : Peter Seixas,Tom Morton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2012-07-30 |
Genre | : Historiography |
ISBN | : 0176541543 |
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Authors Peter Seixas and Tom Morton provide a guide to bring powerful understandings of these six historical thinking concepts into the classroom through teaching strategies and model activities. Table of Contents Historical Significance Evidence Continuity and Change Cause and Consequence Historical Perspectives The Ethical Dimension The accompanying DVD-ROM includes: Modifiable Blackline Masters All graphics, photographs, and illustrations from the text Additional teaching support Order Information: All International Based Customers (School, University and Consumer): All US based customers please contact [email protected] All International customers (exception US and Asia) please contact Nelson.international@ne lson.com
Historical Explanation Reconsidered
Author | : Gordon Graham |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4005637 |
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Values Objectivity and Explanation in Historiography
Author | : Tor Egil Førland |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2017-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781315470955 |
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Bringing sophisticated philosophy to bear on real-life historiography, Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography rekindles and invigorates the debate on two perennials in the theory and methodology of history. One is the tension between historians' values and the ideal—or illusion—of objective historiography. The other is historical explanation. The point of departure for the treatment of values and objectivity is an exceptionally heated debate on Cold War historiography in Denmark, involving not only historians but also the political parties, the national newspapers, and the courts. The in-depth analysis that follows concludes that historians can produce accounts that deserve the label "objective," even though their descriptions are tinged by ineluctable epistemic instability. A separate chapter dissects the postmodern notion of situated truths. The second part of the book proffers a new take on historical explanation. It is based on the notion of the ideal explanatory text, which allows for not only causal—including intentional—but also nomological, structural, and functional explanations. The approach, which can accommodate narrative explanations driven by causal plots, is ecumenical but not all-encompassing. Emergent social properties and supernatural entities are excluded from the ideal explanatory text, making scientific historiography methodologically individualistic—albeit with room for explanations at higher levels when pragmatically justified—and atheist.