A companion to the philosophy of history and historiography / edited by Aviezer Tucker ; contributors Zaid Ahmad [and forty seven others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tucker, Aviezer, 1965- editor.

Ahmad, Zaid, contributor.

Series:

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 41.

Blackwell Companions to Philosophy ; 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Philosophy.

Historiography.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (621 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England ; Malden, Massachusetts : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Glossary of Terms

1 Introduction AVIEZER TUCKER

Part I Major Fields

2 Philosophy of Historiography PETER KOSSO

3 Philosophy of History ZDEN K VA Í EK

4 Philosophical Issues in Natural History and Its Historiography CAROL E. CLELAND

5 Historians and Philosophy of Historiography JOHN ZAMMITO

Part II Basic Problems

6 Historiographic Evidence and Confirmation MARK DAY AND GREGORY RADICK

7 Causation in Historiography AVIEZER TUCKER

8 Historiographic Counterfactuals ELAZAR WEINRYB

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

Part 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

Part IV Classical Schools and Philosophers of Historiography and History

34 Leopold Ranke THOMAS GIL

35 Scientific Historiography CHRIS LORENZ

36 Darwin JOHN S. WILKINS

37 Logical Empiricism and Logical Positivism KRZYSZTOF BRZECHCZYN

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 Pato ka IVAN CHVATÍK

48 Hermeneutics RUDOLF A. MAKKREEL

49 Postmodernism BEVERLEY SOUTHGATE

50 Philosophy of History at the End of the Cold War KRISHAN KUMAR

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612030055

9781405184953

1405184957

9781444304923

1444304925

9781782684756

1782684751

9781444304916

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9781282030053

1282030051

9781444351521

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OCLC:

927509368