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The logic of history : putting postmodernism in perspective /
Defends the practice of history as more reliable than has recently been acknowledged, arguing that historians make their accounts as fair as they can and avoid misleading their readers.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The possibility of historical knowledge
- Theories of truth
- Some common reasons for scepticism
- The meanings of texts, actions and events
- The meanings of texts
- Problems about knowing the meanings of texts
- The meaning of actions, events and practices in history
- Justifying descriptions of the past
- Justifying descriptions of single events
- Lawlike regularities
- Descriptions of social structures
- Causes of human actions
- Mental causes of human actions
- Cultural and social causes of human actions
- Conclusion
- Types of historical narrative
- Commonsense narratives
- Colligatory patterns
- Summary interpretations
- Judging historical narratives
- The credibility of historical narratives
- Fairness
- Causes and conditions in history
- The nature of causes and conditions in history
- Checking out particular causes and conditions
- Checking necessary and sufficient conditions by judging generalizations
- Historical explanations
- Genetic and contrastive explanations of individual actions
- Profound explanations
- Structural explanations.