Understanding History : An Introduction to Analytical Philosophy of History
Has any question about the historical past ever been finally answered? Of course there is much disagreement among professional historians about what happened in the past and how to explain it. But this incisive study goes one step further and brings into question the very ability of historians to ga...
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| Sprog: | Anglais |
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Ottawa :
Les Presses de l Université d Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press
2017.
Marseille : OpenEdition |
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| Online adgang: | Ressource accessible en libre accès Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM ; Accès complet au document dans sa version HTML. Pas d'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub). |
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Description d'après la consultation, 2018-02-02 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de XIII-121 p. OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Understanding History, Texte imprimé, Ottawa, Les Presses de l Université d Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, 1992 |
| Summary: | Has any question about the historical past ever been finally answered? Of course there is much disagreement among professional historians about what happened in the past and how to explain it. But this incisive study goes one step further and brings into question the very ability of historians to gather and communicate genuine knowledge about the past. Understanding History applies this general question from the philosophy of history to economic history of American slaveholders. Do we understand the American slaveholders? Has the last word on the subject been said? Both the alleged profitability of slavery and the purported causes of the American Civil War are philosophically analyzed. Traditional narrative history and econometric history are examined and compared, and their different philosophical assumptions made explicit. The problem of justifying historical methodologies is first set in the wider context of the philosophical problem of knowledge, then lucidly explained and resolved along pragmatic lines. The novelty of Gorman s approach lies in its comparison of narrative with econometric history, its analysis of empathetic understanding in terms of cost-benefit analysis, and its elucidation of the metaphysical presuppositions of empiricism. It stands out especially for the clarity, rigor, and simplicity of its arguments. |
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| Emne beskrivelse: | Description d'après la consultation, 2018-02-02 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de XIII-121 p. OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Format: | Navigateur Web |
| Bibliografi: | Bibliographie |
| ISBN: | 9780776627014 |
| Adgang: | L'accès complet au document est ouvert à tous dans sa version HTML. L'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub) est réservé aux usagers des établissements qui en ont fait l'acquisition. |