| Description |
xii, 563 pages ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 41 |
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Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 41
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| Contents |
1. Introduction / Aviezer Tucker -- Pt. I. Major Fields -- 2. Philosophy of History / Peter Kesse ̃-- 3. Philosophy of History / Zdenek Vasteck ̃-- 4. Philosophical Issues in Natural History and Its Historiography / Carol I. Cleland -- 5. Historians and Philosophy of Historiography / John Zammito -- Pt. II. Basic Problems -- 6. Historiographic Evidence and Confirmation / Mark Day and Gregory Radick -- 7. Causation in Historiography / Aviezer Tucker -- 8. Historiographic Counterfactuals / Elazar Wemryb -- 9. Historical Necessity and Contingency / Yemima Ben-Menahem -- 10. Explanation in Historiography / Graham Macdonald and Cynthia Macdonald -- 11. Historiographic Understanding / Giuseppina D'Oro -- 12. Colligation / C. Behan McCullagh -- 13. The Laws of History / Stephan Berry -- 14. Historiographic Objectivity / Paul Newall -- 15. Realism about the Past / Murray Murphey -- 16. Anti-realism about the Past / Fabrice Pataut -- 17. Narrative and Interpretation / F. R. Ankersmit -- 18. The Ontology of the Objects of Historiography / Lars Udehn -- 19. Origins: Common Causes in Historiographic Reasoning / Aviezer Tucker -- 20. Phylogenetic inference / Matt Haber -- 21. Historicism / Robert D'Amico -- 22. Ethics and the Writing of Historiography / Jonathan Gorman -- 23. Logical Fallacies of Historians / Paul Newall -- 24. Historical Fallacies of Historians / Carlos Spoerhase and Colin G. King -- Pt. III. Philosophy and Sub-fields of Historiography -- 25. Philosophy of History of Science / Nicholas Jardine -- 26. Philosophies of Historiography and the Social Sciences / Harold Kincaid -- 27. The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory / Michael Ruse -- 28. The Philosophy of Geology / Rob Inkpen -- 29. Philosophy of Archaeology / Ben Jeffares -- 30. Reductionism: Historiography and Psychology / Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald -- 31. Historiography and Myth / Mary Lefkowitz -- 32. Historiography and Memory / Marie-Claire Lavabre -- 33. Historiographic Schools / Christopher Lloyd -- Pt. IV. Classical Schools and Philosophers of Historiography and History -- 34. Leopold Ranke / Thomas Gill -- 35. Scientific Historiography / Chris Lorenz -- 36. Darwin / John S. Wilkins -- 37. Logical Empiricism and Logical Positivism / Krzysztof Brzechezyn -- 38. Jewish and Christian Philosophy of History / Samuel Moyn -- 39. Muslim Philosophy of History / Zaid Ahmad -- 40. Vico / Joseph Mali -- 41. Kant and Herder / Sharon Anderson-Gold -- 42. Hegel / Tom Rockmore -- 43. Neo-Kantianism / Charles Bambach -- 44. Marx / Tom Rockmore -- 45. Collingwood and Croce / Stein Helgeby -- 46. Phenomenology / David Weberman -- 47. Jan Palocka / Ivan Chvatik -- 48. Hermeneutics / Rudolf A. Makkreel -- 49. Postmodernism / Beverley Southgate -- 50. Philosophy of History at the End of the Cold War / Krishan Kumar |
| Summary |
The philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation, and narrative. 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. 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 |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to Blackwell Reference Online |
| Subject |
Historiography -- Philosophy.
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History -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Tucker, Aviezer, 1965-
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| LC no. |
2008007601 |
| ISBN |
1405149086 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781405149082 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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