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9781405149082

A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography

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    9781405149082

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    1405149086

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-11-10
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

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 A cutting-edge updated picture of current research in the field Part of the renowned Blackwell Companions series

Author Biography

Aviezer Tucker has held research positions at the Australian National University, New York University, Columbia University and the Central European University in Prague. He is the author of Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography (2004) and is an editor of the Journal of Philosophy of History.

Table of Contents

Glossary
Introduction
Major Fields
Philosophy of Historiography
Philosophy of History
Philosophical Issues in Natural History and its Historiography
Historians and Philosophy of Historiography
Basic Problems
Historiographic Evidence and Confirmation
Causation In Historiography
Historiographic Counterfactuals
Historical Necessity and Contingency
Explanation in Historiography
Historiographic Understanding
Colligation
The Laws of History
Historiographic Objectivity
Realism about the Past
Anti-Realism about the Past
Narrative and Interpretation
The Ontology of the Objects of Historiography
Origins: Common Causes in Historiographic Reasoning
Phylogenetic Inference
Historicism
Ethics and the Writing of Historiography
Logical Fallacies of Historians
Historical Fallacies of Historians
Philosophy and Sub-Fields of Historiography
Philosophy of History of Science
Philosophies of Historiography and the Social Sciences
The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory
The Philosophy of Geology
Philosophy of Archaeology
Reductionism: Historiography and Psychology
Historiography and Myth
Historiography and Memory
Historiographic Schools
Classical Schools and Philosophers of Historiography and History
Leopold Ranke
Scientific Historiography
Darwin
Logical Empiricism and Logical Positivism
Jewish and Christian Philosophy of History
Moslem Philosophy of History
Vico
Kant and Herder
Hegel
Neo-Kantianism
Marx
Collingwood and Croce
Phenomenology
Jan Pato ka
Hermeneutics
Post-Modernism
Philosophy of History at the End of the Cold War
Index
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