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Online-Ressource (271 p)
ISBN:
9781844651092
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The historical profession is not noted for examining its own methodologies. Indeed, most historians are averse to historical theory. In ""Historical Judgement"" Jonathan Gorman's response to this state of affairs is to argue that if we want to characterize a discipline, we need to look to persons who successfully occupy the role of being practitioners of that discipline. So to model historiography we must do so from the views of historians. Gorman begins by showing what it is to model a discipline by using recent philosophy of law and philosophy of science. There are different models at work
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. The argument; 2. The philosophy of a discipline; Respect for historiography; Modelling a discipline: the truth of historical theory; Description and prescription; Justification in the second-order context: Popper and Hempel; Justification in the second-order context: Kuhn; Rival historiographies of science; 3. Writing the history of historiography; Historiography of historiography: prior considerations; Our primary sources; Our use of primary sources; Choices and questions; Character and consensus
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Historiography of historiographyHistorians' self-understanding; 4. Pragmatic postmodernism; Postmodernism; Common sense and experience: Hume; Quine as postmodernist; The costs of belief; Quine not postmodern enough; 5. The room for judgement; Narrative truth; A fancy view of truth; Holistic choice; Structuring factual synthesis; Moral judgement in historiography; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781317493136
Additional Edition:
Print version Historical Judgement
Language:
English
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