Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 1984-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521273305
Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83.
Author : Aviezer Tucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2004-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139452258
How do historians, comparative linguists, biblical and textual critics and evolutionary biologists establish beliefs about the past? How do they know the past? This book presents a philosophical analysis of the disciplines that offer scientific knowledge of the past. Using the analytic tools of contemporary epistemology and philosophy of science the book covers such topics as evidence, theory, methodology, explanation, determination and underdetermination, coincidence, contingency and counterfactuals in historiography. Aviezer Tucker's central claim is that historiography as a scientific discipline should be thought of as an effort to explain the evidence of past events. He also emphasizes the similarity between historiographic methodology to Darwinian evolutionary biology. This is an important, fresh approach to historiography and will be read by philosophers, historians and social scientists interested in the methodological foundations of their disciplines.
Author : Aviezer Tucker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1444351524
A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY The philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation and narrative. Do we possess knowledge of the past? Do we just have probable beliefs about the past, or is historiography a piece of convincing fiction? The philosophy of history is the direct philosophical examination of history, whether it is necessary or contingent, whether it has a direction or whether it is coincidental, and if it has a direction, what it is, and how and why it is unfolding? The fifty entries in this Companion cover the main issues in the philosophies of historiography and history, including natural history and the practices of historians. Written by an international and multi-disciplinary group of experts, these clearly written entries present a cutting-edge updated picture of current research in the philosophies of historiography and history. This Companion will be of interest to philosophers, historians, natural historians, and social scientists.
Author : Leo Catana
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 904743336X
Jacob Brucker (1696-1770) established the history of philosophy as a philosophical discipline in the 1740s. In order to separate this new discipline from other historical disciplines, he introduced the historiographical concept ‘system of philosophy’. The historian of philosophy should use this concept as a criterion of inclusion of past philosophies, and as an ideal form of exposition. The present book describes the origin of this historiographical notion, its implicit Protestant assumptions, and it traces the concept’s impact upon the methods of history of philosophy and history of ideas, as developed over the following centuries. Finally, it discusses the concept’s strenghts and weaknesses as a historiographical tool, arguing that it ought to be given up.
Author : Mogens Lærke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0199857164
Many chapters articulate new, detailed methods of doing history of philosophy. These present conflicting visions of the history of philosophy as an autonomous sub-discipline of professional philosophy.
Author : Michael Frede
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 0198840721
"This volume presents stimulating and provocative work on how the history of philosophy is done and how it should be done, by Michael Frede, a pre-eminent figure in ancient philosophy until his early death in 2007. His Nellie Wallace lectures are published here accompanied by three related articles."--Publisher.
Author : Paul A. Roth
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810140896
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.
Author : M.C. Lemon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1134717466
Philosophy of History is an essential introduction to a vast body of writing about history, from classical Greece and Rome to the modern world. M.C. Lemon maps out key debates and central concepts of philosophy of history, placing principal thinkers in the context of their times and schools of thought. Lemon explains the crucial differences between speculative philosophy as an enquiry into the content of history, and analytic philosophy of history as relating to the methods of history. The first two parts of the book trace each of these traditions, whereas the third part revisits both in the light of recent contributions to the discipline. This guide provides a comprehensive survey of historical thought since ancient times. Its clear terminology and lucid argument will make it an invaluable source for students and teachers alike.
Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher :
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 1902
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Anthony K. Jensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1107027322
An exposition of the development of Nietzsche's philosophy of history in its historical context and of its relevance to contemporary theories.
