Logic Of Historical Explanation

Author : Clayton Roberts
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0271042990

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Logic of Historical Explanation by Clayton Roberts Pdf

In this book the author provides a key to understanding the role of covering laws in historical explanation. He does so by distinguishing between their use at the macro - and micro- levels, a distinction that no other scholar has made. He then sets forth the logic of an explanatory narrative, explores the nature of rational explanation, and distinguishes the logic of historical interpretation from the logic of historical explanation.

Author : William H. Sewell Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226749198

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Logics of History by William H. Sewell Jr. Pdf

While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to history. Logics of History argues that both history and the social sciences have something crucial to offer each other. While historians do not think of themselves as theorists, they know something social scientists do not: how to think about the temporalities of social life. On the other hand, while social scientists’ treatments of temporality are usually clumsy, their theoretical sophistication and penchant for structural accounts of social life could offer much to historians. Renowned for his work at the crossroads of history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, Sewell argues that only by combining a more sophisticated understanding of historical time with a concern for larger theoretical questions can a satisfying social theory emerge. In Logics of History, he reveals the shape such an engagement could take, some of the topics it could illuminate, and how it might affect both sides of the disciplinary divide.

Author : Paul A. Roth
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810140899

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The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation by Paul A. Roth Pdf

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 : C. Behan McCullagh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134592944

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The Logic of History by C. Behan McCullagh Pdf

The Logic of History defends the practice of history as more reliable than has recently been acknowledged, arguing that historians make their accounts as fair as they can and avoid misleading their readers.

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521016843

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The Logic of the History of Ideas by Mark Bevir Pdf

Human cultures generate meanings, and the history of ideas, broadly conceived, is the study of these meanings. An adequate theory of culture must therefore rest on a suitable philosophical enquiry into the nature of the history of ideas. Mark Bevir's book explores the forms of reasoning appropriate to the history of ideas, enhancing our understanding by grappling with central questions such as: What is a meaning? What constitutes objective knowledge of the past? What are beliefs and traditions? How can we explain why people held the beliefs they did? The book ranges widely over issues and theorists associated with post-analytic philosophy, post-modernism, hermeneutics, literary theory, political thought, and social theory.

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046441237

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Historians' Fallacies by David Hackett Fischer Pdf

Author : C. Behan McCullagh
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Historiography
ISBN : 0415223989

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The Logic of History by C. Behan McCullagh Pdf

The Logic of History defends the practice of history as more reliable than has recently been acknowledged, arguing that historians make their accounts as fair as they can and avoid misleading their readers.

Author : Gordon Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4005637

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Historical Explanation Reconsidered by Gordon Graham Pdf

Author : John Arnold,John H. (Professor of History Arnold, School of History Classics and Archaeology Professor of History School of History Classics and Archaeology Birkbeck University of London),Professor John H Arnold
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192853523

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History: A Very Short Introduction by John Arnold,John H. (Professor of History Arnold, School of History Classics and Archaeology Professor of History School of History Classics and Archaeology Birkbeck University of London),Professor John H Arnold Pdf

Starting with an examination of how historians work, this "Very Short Introduction" aims to explore history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather than to delve into specific periods.

Author : James Mahoney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691214955

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The Logic of Social Science by James Mahoney Pdf

"Mahoney's starting point is the problem of essentialism in social science. Essentialism--the belief that the members of a category possess hidden properties ("essences") that make them members of the category and that endow them with a certain nature--is appropriate for scientific categories ("atoms", for instance) but not for human ones ("revolutions," for instance). Despite this, much social science research takes place from within an essentialist orientation; those who reject this assumption goes so far in the other direction as to reject the idea of an external reality, independent of human beings, altogether. Mahoney proposes an alternative approach that aspires to bridge this enduring rift in the social sciences between those who take a scientific approach and assume that social science categories correspond to external reality (and thus believe that the methods used in the natural sciences are generally appropriate for the social sciences) and those who take a constructivist approach and believe that because the categories used to understand the social world are humanly-constructed, they cannot possibly follow the science of the natural world. As the name suggests, scientific constructivism brings in aspects of both views and attempts to unite them. Drawing from cognitive science, it focuses on using the rational parts of our brain machinery to overcome the limitations and deeply seated biases (such as essentialism) of our evolved minds. Specifically, Mahoney puts forth a "set-theoretic analysis" that focuses on "sets" of categories as they exist in the mind that are also subject to the mathematical logic of set-theory. He spends the first four chapters of the book establishing the foundations and methods for set-theoretic analysis, the next four chapters looking and how this analysis fits with the existing tools of social science, and the final four chapters focusing on how this approach can be used to study and understand cases"--

Author : Ronald F. Atkinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1978-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349159659

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Knowledge and Explanation in History by Ronald F. Atkinson Pdf

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465592736

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The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Julia Annas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191578304

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Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Julia Annas Pdf

The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one, in which a constant note is that of discussion and argument. This book introduces readers to some ancient debates to engage with the ancient developments of some themes. Getting away from the presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great Thinkers, the book gives readers a sense of the freshness and liveliness of ancient philosophy, and of its wide variety of themes and styles. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Martijn Konings
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804794503

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The Emotional Logic of Capitalism by Martijn Konings Pdf

The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if such hallowed critiques are completely misleading? This book argues that the production of new sources of faith and enchantment is crucial to the dynamics of the capitalist economy. Distinctively secular patterns of attraction and attachment give modern institutions a binding force that was not available to more traditional forms of rule. Elaborating his alternative approach through an engagement with the semiotics of money and the genealogy of economy, Martijn Konings uncovers capitalism's emotional and theological content in order to understand the paradoxical sources of cohesion and legitimacy that it commands. In developing this perspective, he draws on pragmatist thought to rework and revitalize the Marxist critique of capitalism.

Author : Alfred Jules Ayer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486113098

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Language, Truth and Logic by Alfred Jules Ayer Pdf

"A delightful book … I should like to have written it myself." — Bertrand Russell First published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath, and others has gone through many printings to become a classic of thought and communication. It not only surveys one of the most important areas of modern thought; it also shows the confusion that arises from imperfect understanding of the uses of language. A first-rate antidote for fuzzy thought and muddled writing, this remarkable book has helped philosophers, writers, speakers, teachers, students, and general readers alike. Mr. Ayers sets up specific tests by which you can easily evaluate statements of ideas. You will also learn how to distinguish ideas that cannot be verified by experience — those expressing religious, moral, or aesthetic experience, those expounding theological or metaphysical doctrine, and those dealing with a priori truth. The basic thesis of this work is that philosophy should not squander its energies upon the unknowable, but should perform its proper function in criticism and analysis.