Truth, time and history : a philosophical inquiry / Sophie Botros.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Botros, Sophie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Truth.

Physical Description:

viii, 276 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Summary:

Truth, Time and History investigates the reality of the past by connecting arguments across areas which are conventionally discussed in isolation from each other. Breaking the impasses within the narrower analytic debate between Dummett's semantic anti-realists and the truth value link realists as to whether the past exists independently of our methods of verification. Sophie Botros argues, through an examination of the puzzles concerning identity over time, that only the present exists. Drawing on Lewis's analogy between times and possible words, and work by Collingwood, Oakeshott and Barthes. Botros advances a Wholly novel proposal, as to how aspects of ersatz presentation may be combined with historical coherentism to uphold the legitimacy of discourse about the past. In highlighting the rote of historians in the creation and construction of temporality, Truth, Time and History offers a convincing philosophical argument for the inherence of an unreal past in the real present. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1. Truth. The realist/anti-realist wars ; Projection, analogy and meaning

Part II. Time. Tense theory ; Caught in a timeless Leibnizian net ; Presentism and modality

Part III. History. Collingwood and Oakeshott: is history possible? ; A realist present and a coherentist past.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350027312

1350027316

OCLC:

967374987