The Philosophical Structure Of Historical Explanation

Author : Paul A. Roth
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810140896
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation written by Paul A. Roth and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Paul A. Roth resolves disputes persisting since the nineteenth century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their logic explicit, and revealing how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible. Roth situates narrative explanations within a naturalistic framework and develops a nonrealist (irrealist) metaphysics and epistemology of history—arguing that there exists no one fixed past, but many pasts. The book includes a novel reading of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, showing how it offers a narrative explanation of theory change in science. This book will be of interest to researchers in historiography, philosophy of history, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, and epistemology.

Author : Patrick L. Gardiner
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780313249761
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Historical Explanation written by Patrick L. Gardiner and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardiner approaches the idea of a philosophy of history by first giving an outline of the regularity interpretation of explanation. How far it is possible to regard all historical explanations, or even some, as approximating this pattern, how far the objections philosophers have marshalled against such an assimilation are justified, how far the alternative interpretations suggested correspond to the historian's actual procedure in certain cases; these represent the kind of questions that will have to be considered. By keeping the actual practice of historians constantly in view, he believes that the reader will be able to see some of the disputes that have raged concerning the philosophy of historyin better perspective.

Author : William H. Dray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laws and Explanation in History written by William H. Dray and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clayton Roberts
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271097655
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Historical Explanation written by Clayton Roberts and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Krzysztof Brzechczyn
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004356908
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a Revival of Analytical Philosophy of History written by Krzysztof Brzechczyn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of Towards a Revival of Analytical Philosophy of History: Around Paul A. Roth's Vision of Historical Sciences is to discuss the revival of analytical philosophy of history proposed by Paul A. Roth. The authors characterize the status of philosophy of history and discuss its ontological, epistemological and explanatory dimensions.

Author : Ronald F. Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801411168
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Explanation in History written by Ronald F. Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lorenz B. Puntel
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271048263
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structure and Being written by Lorenz B. Puntel and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Suppe
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252006340
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Scientific Theories written by Frederick Suppe and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''A clear and comprehensive introduction to contemporary philosophy of science.'' -- American Scientist ''The best account of scientific theory now available, one that surely commends itself to every philosopher of science with the slightest interest in metaphysics.'' -- Review of Mathematics ''It should certainly be of interest to those teaching graduate courses in philosophy of science and to scientists wishing to gain a further appreciation of the approach used by philosophers of science.'' -- Science Activities

Author : Patrick Gardiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Historical Explanation written by Patrick Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Agnes Heller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317268830
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theory of History written by Agnes Heller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This radical analysis of the role and importance of historiography interprets the philosophy and theory of history on the basis of historicity as a human condition. The book examins the norms and methods of historiography from a philosophical point of view, but rejects generalisations tht the philosophy of history can provide all the answers to contemporary problems. Instead it outlines a feasible theory of history which is still radical enough to apply to all social structures.