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A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography
"Since the writing of history is part of the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences, the philosophical questions pertaining thereto have often been isolated from each other. Not so here. This volume is full of riches." "Anyone interested in thinking about history, from the great systems to analyzing how historians support their truth claims, will find these expert essays a splendid introduction."
–Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin
–Richard Vann, Senior Editor, History and Theory
Aviezer Tucker (Edited by)
9781444337884, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 5 November 2010
576 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 3.1 cm, 0.998 kg
"Like the encompassing nature of the other volumes in the Blackwell Companion to Philosophy series, undergraduate students and scholars with a serious interest in philosophical problems related to history and historiography should benefit from the newest Companion." (Reviews in Religion & Theology, 2012) "This volume does a fine job of showing the field's connections to many of the central concerns of contemporary philosophy. Part Four offers essays addressing the traditional schools and issues of philosophy of history and historiography, as well as valuable essays on postmodernism, Muslim philosophy of history, and philosophy of history at the end of the Cold War, among other topics. Recommended." (Choice, June 2009) "Tucker is to be congratulated…for conceiving of this work, and for soliciting, selecting, organizing, and editing its essays—all of which were written especially for the volume. [E]ach essay presents a particular author's take on a subject, often ending with further questions and suggestions. In this way it resembles a conversational partner who accompanies one along the way, stimulating further reflection as well as providing interesting information and observations. A companion literally is someone who breaks bread with another (com: with; panis: bread), and it certainly is the case that these essays—so clearly written, so mercifully manageable in length, and so sharp in focus—collectively and individually provide a great deal of food for thought.
[T]he range and scope of the volume…is impressive by any standard. The fact that the authors are world-class authorities in the areas in which they are writing, and that they have made a special effort (prodded, no doubt, by its editor), to write in clear, jargon-free prose, makes evident the appeal and usefulness of the book. Too, the book is handsomely produced and well copy-edited by Wiley-Blackwell." (Brian Fay, Journal of the Philosophy of History)
Die fünfzig Beiträge in diesem Werk der "Blackwell Companion"-Serie behandeln die Hauptpunkte in der Philosophie der Geschichtsschreibung und Geschichte, einschließlich der Naturkunde und der Arbeitsweise von Historikern.
List of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xi Glossary of Terms xii 1 Introduction 1 Part I Major Fields 7 2 Philosophy of Historiography 9 3 Philosophy of History 26 4 Philosophical Issues in Natural History and Its Historiography 44 5 Historians and Philosophy of Historiography 63 Part II Basic Problems 85 6 Historiographic Evidence and Confirmation 87 7 Causation in Historiography 98 8 Historiographic Counterfactuals 109 9 Historical Necessity and Contingency 120 10 Explanation in Historiography 131 11 Historiographic Understanding 142 12 Colligation 152 13 The Laws of History 162 14 Historiographic Objectivity 172 15 Realism about the Past 181 16 Anti-realism about the Past 190 17 Narrative and Interpretation 199 18 The Ontology of the Objects of Historiography 209 19 Origins: Common Causes in Historiographic Reasoning 220 20 Phylogenetic Inference 231 21 Historicism 243 22 Ethics and the Writing of Historiography 253 23 Logical Fallacies of Historians 262 24 Historical Fallacies of Historians 274 Part III Philosophy and Sub-fields of Historiography 285 25 Philosophy of History of Science 287 26 Philosophies of Historiography and the Social Sciences 297 27 The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory 307 28 The Philosophy of Geology 318 29 Philosophy of Archaeology 330 30 Reductionism: Historiography and Psychology 342 31 Historiography and Myth 353 32 Historiography and Memory 362 33 Historiographic Schools 371 Part IV Classical Schools and Philosophers of Historiography and History 381 34 Leopold Ranke 383 35 Scientific Historiography 393 36 Darwin 404 37 Logical Empiricism and Logical Positivism 416 38 Jewish and Christian Philosophy of History 427 39 Muslim Philosophy of History 437 40 Vico 446 41 Kant and Herder 457 42 Hegel 468 43 Neo-Kantianism 477 44 Marx 488 45 Collingwood and Croce 498 46 Phenomenology 508 47 Jan Patocka 518 48 Hermeneutics 529 49 Postmodernism 540 50 Philosophy of History at the End of the Cold War 550 Index 561
Aviezer Tucker
Peter Kosso
ZdenFk VaSíCek
Carol E. Cleland
John Zammito
Mark Day and Gregory Radick
Aviezer Tucker
Elazar Weinryb
Yemima Ben-Menahem
Graham Macdonald and Cynthia Macdonald
Giuseppina D’Oro
C. Behan McCullagh
Stephan Berry
Paul Newall
Murray Murphey
Fabrice Pataut
F. R. Ankersmit
Lars Udehn
Aviezer Tucker
Matt Haber
Robert D’Amico
Jonathan Gorman
Paul Newall
Carlos Spoerhase and Colin G. King
Nicholas Jardine
Harold Kincaid
Michael Ruse
Rob Inkpen
Ben Jeffares
Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald
Mary Lefkowitz
Marie-Claire Lavabre
Christopher Lloyd
Thomas Gil
Chris Lorenz
John S. Wilkins
Krzysztof Brzechczyn
Samuel Moyn
Zaid Ahmad
Joseph Mali
Sharon Anderson-Gold
Tom Rockmore
Charles Bambach
Tom Rockmore
Stein Helgeby
David Weberman
Ivan Chvatík
Rudolf A. Makkreel
Beverley Southgate
Krishan Kumar
Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
