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Towards a Revival of Analytical Philosophy of History
Author | : Krzysztof Brzechczyn |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2017-11-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789004356900 |
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The purpose of Towards a Revival of Analytical Philosophy of History: Around Paul A. Roth's Vision of Historical Sciences is to discuss the revival of analytical philosophy of history proposed by Paul A. Roth. The authors characterize the status of philosophy of history and discuss its ontological, epistemological and explanatory dimensions.
Towards a Realist Philosophy of History
Author | : Adam Timmins |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2022-06-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781666902426 |
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Towards a Realist Philosophy of History argues for the radical—at least in contemporary historical theory—view that historians are by and large successful in their goal of providing accurate knowledge and understanding about the historical past. Adam Timmins provides a philosophical framework that supports this endeavor, as well as highlighting some of the issues with the "strong constructivist" accounts common in contemporary historical theory. Among other things, the book provides a realist construal of colligatory concepts, historiographical reference, and the use of narrative, as well as examining the mechanisms of historiographical progress. The work also provides some much-needed criticism of aspects of the strong constructivist position, such as the contemporary adoption of “irrealism” and the idealist implications of this, that has have yet failed to make their way into the existing literature. The book proves that historical theory has not “moved on” from the realism-idealism debate and that realism with regards to the products of historiography is still very much a live option.
Understanding History
Author | : Jonathan Gorman |
Publsiher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780776603551 |
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Has any question about the historical past ever been finally answered? Of course there is much disagreement among professional historians about what happened in the past and how to explain it. But this incisive study goes one step further and brings into question the very ability of historians to gather and communicate genuine knowledge about the past. Understanding History applies this general question from the philosophy of history to economic history of American slaveholders. Do we understand the American slaveholders? Has the last word on the subject been said? Both the alleged "profitability" of slavery and the purported causes of the American Civil War are philosophically analyzed. Traditional narrative history and econometric history are examined and compared, and their different philosophical assumptions made explicit. The problem of justifying historical methodologies is first set in the wider context of the philosophical problem of knowledge, then lucidly explained and resolved along pragmatic lines. The novelty of Gorman's approach lies in its comparison of narrative with econometric history, its analysis of empathetic understanding in terms of cost-benefit analysis, and its elucidation of the metaphysical presuppositions of empiricism. It stands out especially for the clarity, rigor, and simplicity of its arguments.
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.
Analytic Philosophy The History of an Illusion
Author | : Aaron Preston |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2010-12-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781441131966 |
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The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory
Author | : Chiel van den Akker |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000465501 |
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This Companion provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the conceptual issues that history as a discipline and mode of thought gives rise to. The book offers both historical and systematic treatments of these issues, as well as addressing their contemporary relevance. Structured in three parts – Modes and Schools of Historical Thought, Epistemology and Metaphysics of History, and Issues and Challenges in Historical Theory – it offers the reader a wide scope and expert treatment of each topic in this vibrant field that can be read in any order. An international team of experts both discuss the basis of their topic and present their own view, offering the reader a cutting-edge contribution while ensuring their chapters are of interest to both students and specialists in the field of historical theory and engaging with the very nature of historical thought, the metaphysics of historical existence, the politics of history-writing, and the intelligibility of the historical process. The volume is an indispensable companion to the study of history and essential reading for anyone interested in the reflection on the nature of history and our historical existence.
Understanding History
Author | : Jonathan L. Gorman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Historiography |
ISBN | : OCLC:1014403413 |
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Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought
Author | : Paul Redding |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2007-09-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781139468206 |
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This 2007 book examines the possibilities for the rehabilitation of Hegelian thought within analytic philosophy. From its inception, the analytic tradition has in general accepted Bertrand Russell's hostile dismissal of the idealists, based on the claim that their metaphysical views were irretrievably corrupted by the faulty logic that informed them. These assumptions are challenged by the work of such analytic philosophers as John McDowell and Robert Brandom, who, while contributing to core areas of the analytic movement, nevertheless have found in Hegel sophisticated ideas that are able to address problems which still haunt the analytic tradition after a hundred years. Paul Redding traces the consequences of the displacement of the logic presupposed by Kant and Hegel by modern post-Fregean logic, and examines the developments within twentieth-century analytic philosophy which have made possible an analytic re-engagement with a previously dismissed philosophical tradition.