The Philosophy of HistoriographyOpen Road Media, 1 apr 2014 - 660 pagina's A philosophical examination of the study of history, from its logic and semantics to its metaphysical and epistemological implications. This book is intended for the highly intelligent reader, who is interested in considering the difficulties, problems, and challenges of understanding and writing about the human past. It is popularly enough written, hopefully, to be a joy to read, and scholarly enough to be seriously instructive. The book has two major purposes, first, to give a reader an extensive, detailed overview of the field as it currently exists, and, second, to considerably enlarge the field itself, as it is the first book in the area to consider not only the epistemology of the field, but, in detail, its logic and semantics, its metaphysics, its axiology and its aesthetics. |
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Studies and Metastudies | |
Analytic vs Speculative Philosophy of History | |
Logic | |
Metaphysics | |
The Roots of | |
Skepticism | |
The Dubiety Dilemma | |
Knowledge | |
Explanation | |
Historiography and Objectivity | |
The Cognitivity Status of Historiography | |
Axiology | |
Ethical Taxonomy | |
Progress Plan and Pattern | |
Historical Statements | |
Process and Historical Event | |
SystemicProcess Morality | |
An Examination of Some Arguments Pertinent to | |
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