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Historical judgement : the limits of historiographical choice / Jonathan Gorman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gorman, J. L. (Jonathan L.), 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Historiography--History.
- Historiography.
- Historiography--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 258 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- 1 The argument 1
- 2 The philosophy of a discipline 17
- Respect for historiography 17
- Modelling a discipline: the truth of historical theory 26
- Description and prescription 33
- Justification in the second-order context: Popper and Hempel 40
- Justification in the second-order context: Kuhn 48
- Rival historiographies of science 62
- 3 Writing the history of historiography 67
- Historiography of historiography: prior considerations 67
- Our primary sources 71
- Our use of primary sources 81
- Choices and questions 86
- Character and consensus 92
- Historiography of historiography 98
- Historians' self-understanding 120
- 4 Pragmatic postmodernism 131
- Postmodernism 131
- Common sense and experience: Hume 136
- Quine as postmodernist 139
- The costs of belief 146
- Quine not postmodern enough 157
- 5 The room for judgement 165
- Narrative truth 165
- A fancy view of truth 177
- Holistic choice 183
- Structuring factual synthesis 190
- Moral judgement in historiography 202.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780773534094
- 0773534091
- 9780773534100
- 0773534105
- OCLC:
- 180689442
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