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A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Somerset :
Wiley,
2011.
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| Colección: | Blackwell companions to philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Series Title
- Title
- Copyright
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of Terms
- 1: Introduction
- Part I: Major Fields
- 2: Philosophy of Historiography
- Facts
- Evidence
- The Structure of Description and Justification
- Explanation and Understanding
- Summary
- 3: Philosophy of History
- The Term "Philosophy of History"
- The Terms "Philosophy" and "History"
- Historiographical Production
- Critical Theory of Historiography vs. Substantive Philosophy of History
- The Meaning and Function of History
- The Evolution of Substantive Philosophies of History
- The Poetics of the Substantive Philosophy of History
- The Arrival of the Philosophy of Historiography
- 4: Philosophical Issues in Natural History and Its Historiography
- Introduction
- The Scientific Method of Yore
- The Structure and Research Practices of Scientific Historiography of Nature
- Explanation and Confirmation in Scientific Historiography
- Narrative Explanation
- Common Cause Explanation
- 5: Historians and Philosophy of Historiography
- JOHN ZAMMITO
- A Perennial Crisis? When "Historiography" Faces "Philosophy"
- The Poststructuralist/Postmodernist Challenge
- Practicing Historians and the Challenge of Philosophy
- Concluding Comment
- Part II: Basic Problems
- 6: Historiographic Evidence and Confirmation
- What Is Historiographic Evidence?
- Bayesianism
- Bayesianism as a Model of Historiographic Reasoning
- Explanationism
- Towards an Explanationist Bayesianism
- Applications: Skepticism
- Applications: Underdetermination
- 7: Causation in Historiography
- Unificationist Accounts of Causation
- Conditional Theories
- Counterfactuals
- Causation as a Process
- Probability
- Exceptionalism
- Eliminativism
- Primitivism
- 8: Historiographic Counterfactuals
- The Counterfactual Character of Historiography
- Understanding
- Metaphysical Preliminaries
- Causal Counterfactual Analysis in Historiography
- Counterfactuals and Practical Reasoning
- Science and Counterfactuals
- 9: Historical Necessity and Contingency
- Introduction
- Necessity and Contingency as Degrees of Stability
- Necessity (Contingency) and Description
- Cleopatra's Nose and Other Category Mistakes
- Making a Difference
- Emplotment
- Prophets of Contingency
- 10: Explanation in Historiography
- 1
- 2
- 3
- Acknowledgment
- 11: Historiographic Understanding GIUSEPPINA D'ORO
- Introduction
- The Argument for Methodological Unity
- The Argument against Methodological Unity
- Understanding Others
- The Ontological Turn and the New Causalist Consensus
- 12: Colligation
- The Concept of "Colligation"
- Some Common Hazards in Colligation
- Philosophical Issues
- Colligation and Postmodernism
- The Value of Colligation
- 13: The Laws of History
- A Systematic Look at Laws in History and Nature
- The History of the "Laws of History"
- Current Problems and Debates in History and Neighboring Disciplines