Representation And Truth

Author : Frank R. Ankersmit
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801464324

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Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation by Frank R. Ankersmit Pdf

In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romanticist idiom needs to be translated into more modern terms. Rehabilitating historicism for the contemporary philosophy of history, he argues, "reveals the basic truths about the nature of the past itself, how we relate to it, and how we make sense of the past in historical writing." At the heart of Ankersmit's project is a sharp distinction between interpretation and representation. The historical text, he holds, is first and foremost a representation of some part of the past, not an interpretation. The book's central chapters address the concept of historical representation from the perspectives of reference, truth, and meaning. Ankersmit then goes on to discuss the possible role of experience in the history writing, which leads directly to a consideration of subjectivity and ethics in the historian's practice. Ankersmit concludes with a chapter on political history, which he maintains is the "basis and condition of all other variants of historical writing." Ankersmit’s rehabilitation of historicism is a powerfully original and provocative contribution to the debate about the nature of historical writing.

Author : Dan Nesher
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0761824545

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On Truth and the Representation of Reality by Dan Nesher Pdf

In On Truth and the Representation of Reality, Dan Nesher develops a new theory of truth in the framework of pragmatist theory of representation. Using the pragmatist theory of perception for the basis of his epistemological explanation of our confrontation with external Reality and how it's represented, Nesher shows that in our perceptual operations we quasi-prove the truth of our perceptual judgments. He explains how- through our proving the truth of our propositions and theories, we know that they correspond to Reality, and through our proving their falsity, we know that they don't correspond to it.

Author : Mark Bradley,Patrice Petro
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 0813530520

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Truth Claims by Mark Bradley,Patrice Petro Pdf

Exhibiting Terror: Lindsay French

Author : F. R. Ankersmit
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0804739803

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Historical Representation by F. R. Ankersmit Pdf

Focusing on the notion of representation and on the necessity of distinguishing between representation and description, this book argues that the traditional semantic apparatus of meaning, truth, and reference that we use for description must be redefined if we are to understand properly the nature of historical writing.

Author : Alexander Laban Hinton,Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822392361

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Genocide by Alexander Laban Hinton,Kevin Lewis O'Neill Pdf

What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic “truth” about the past? In this important volume, leading anthropologists consider such questions about the relationship of genocide, truth, memory, and representation in the Balkans, East Timor, Germany, Guatemala, Indonesia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, and other locales. Specialists on the societies about which they write, these anthropologists draw on ethnographic research to provide on-the-ground analyses of communities in the wake of mass brutality. They investigate how mass violence is described or remembered, and how those representations are altered by the attempts of others, from NGOs to governments, to assert “the truth” about outbreaks of violence. One contributor questions the neutrality of an international group monitoring violence in Sudan and the assumption that such groups are, at worst, benign. Another examines the consequences of how events, victims, and perpetrators are portrayed by the Rwandan government during the annual commemoration of that country’s genocide in 1994. Still another explores the silence around the deaths of between eighty and one hundred thousand people on Bali during Indonesia’s state-sponsored anticommunist violence of 1965–1966, a genocidal period that until recently was rarely referenced in tourist guidebooks, anthropological studies on Bali, or even among the Balinese themselves. Other contributors consider issues of political identity and legitimacy, coping, the media, and “ethnic cleansing.” Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation reveals the major contribution that cultural anthropologists can make to the study of genocide. Contributors. Pamela Ballinger, Jennie E. Burnet, Conerly Casey, Elizabeth Drexler, Leslie Dwyer, Alexander Laban Hinton, Sharon E. Hutchinson, Uli Linke, Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Debra Rodman, Victoria Sanford

Author : David S. Escoffery
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476602288

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How Real Is Reality TV? by David S. Escoffery Pdf

American viewers are attracted to what they see as the non-scripted, unpredictable freshness of reality television. But although the episodes may not be scripted, the shows are constructed within a deliberately designed framework, reflecting societal values. The political, economic and personal issues of reality TV are in many ways simply an exaggerated version of everyday life, allowing us to identify (perhaps more closely than we care to admit) with the characters onscreen. With 16 essays from scholars around the world, this volume discusses the notion of representation in reality television. It explores how both audiences and producers negotiate the gulf between representations and truth in reality shows such as Survivor, The Apprentice, Big Brother, The Nanny, American Idol, Extreme Makeover, Joe Millionaire and The Amazing Race. Various identity categories and character types found in these shows are discussed and the accuracy of their television portrayal examined. Dealing with the concept of reality, audience reception, gender roles, minority portrayal and power issues, the book provides an in-depth look at what we see, or think we see, in “reality” TV. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Ruth Morse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521302111

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Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages by Ruth Morse Pdf

Medieval assumptions about the nature of the representation involved in literary and historical narratives were widely different from our own. Writers and readers worked with a complex understanding of the relations between truth and convention, in which accounts of presumed fact could be expanded, embellished, or translated in a variety of accepted ways.

Author : Gross Steven,Nicholas Tebben,Michael Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0198722192

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Meaning Without Representation by Gross Steven,Nicholas Tebben,Michael Williams Pdf

Author : Fred Jaeger
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798363257544

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Truth and Representation by Fred Jaeger Pdf

Truth and Representation is an original critique of the concept of truth aligned with an innovative account of verbal meaning. Their application in furthering the understanding of the nature of both human knowledge and forms of artistic representation is explored. Main themes include: understanding truth as the illusion that the world corresponds with language; the four basic ways the words in sentences mean; stated truth understood as statements of word meanings eg "Snow is white"; the truth of forms of discourse (scientific, historical, media etc); truth in artistic and numerical representation.

Author : Frank Ankersmit
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801463853

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Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation by Frank Ankersmit Pdf

In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romanticist idiom needs to be translated into more modern terms. Rehabilitating historicism for the contemporary philosophy of history, he argues, "reveals the basic truths about the nature of the past itself, how we relate to it, and how we make sense of the past in historical writing." At the heart of Ankersmit's project is a sharp distinction between interpretation and representation. The historical text, he holds, is first and foremost a representation of some part of the past, not an interpretation. The book's central chapters address the concept of historical representation from the perspectives of reference, truth, and meaning. Ankersmit then goes on to discuss the possible role of experience in the history writing, which leads directly to a consideration of subjectivity and ethics in the historian's practice. Ankersmit concludes with a chapter on political history, which he maintains is the "basis and condition of all other variants of historical writing." Ankersmit's rehabilitation of historicism is a powerfully original and provocative contribution to the debate about the nature of historical writing.

Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262660741

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Representation and Reality by Hilary Putnam Pdf

The author, one of the first philosophers to advance the notion that the computer is an apt model for the mind, takes a radical view of his own theory of functionalism in this book.

Author : Stephen David Ross
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791411109

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The Ring of Representation by Stephen David Ross Pdf

This book asks how we may undertake to represent representation.

Author : Raffaella De Rosa
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191610066

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Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation by Raffaella De Rosa Pdf

While much has been written on Descartes' theory of mind and ideas, no systematic study of his theory of sensory representation and misrepresentation is currently available in the literature. Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Misrepresentation is an ambitious attempt to fill this gap. It argues against the established view that Cartesian sensations are mere qualia by defending the view that they are representational; it offers a descriptivist-causal account of their representationality that is critical of, and differs from, all other extant accounts (such as, for example, causal, teleofunctional and purely internalist accounts); and it has the advantage of providing an adequate solution to the problem of sensory misrepresentation within Descartes' internalist theory of ideas. In sum, the book offers a novel account of the representationality of Cartesian sensations; provides a panoramic overview, and critical assessment, of the scholarly literature on this issue; and places Descartes' theory of sensation in the central position it deserves among the philosophical and scientific investigations of the workings of the human mind.

Author : Victor D. Montejo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292778658

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Maya Intellectual Renaissance by Victor D. Montejo Pdf

When Mayan leaders protested the celebration of the Quincentenary of the "discovery" of America and joined with other indigenous groups in the Americas to proclaim an alternate celebration of 500 years of resistance, they rose to national prominence in Guatemala. This was possible in part because of the cultural, political, economic, and religious revitalization that occurred in Mayan communities in the later half of the twentieth century. Another result of the revitalization was Mayan students' enrollment in graduate programs in order to reclaim the intellectual history of the brilliant Mayan past. Victor Montejo was one of those students. This is the first book to be published outside of Guatemala where a Mayan writer other than Rigoberta Menchu discusses the history and problems of the country. It collects essays Montejo has written over the past ten years that address three critical issues facing Mayan peoples today: identity, representation, and Mayan leadership. Montejo is deeply invested in furthering the discussion of the effectiveness of Mayan leadership because he believes that self-evaluation is necessary for the movement to advance. He also criticizes the racist treatment that Mayans experience, and advocates for the construction of a more pluralistic Guatemala that recognizes cultural diversity and abandons assimilation. This volume maps a new political alternative for the future of the movement that promotes inter-ethnic collaboration alongside a reverence for Mayan culture.

Author : Dena Elisabeth Eber,Arthur G. Neal
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0879728302

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Memory and Representation by Dena Elisabeth Eber,Arthur G. Neal Pdf

Eber and Neal address some of the theoretical issues connected with symbolic constructions of reality through human memory and its subsequent representation. Linkages between what we remember and how we represent it give humans their distinctive characteristics. We construct our reality from how we perceive the events in our lives and, from that reality, we create a symbol system to describe our world. It is through such symbolic constructions that we are provided with a usable backdrop for shaping our memories and organizing them into meaningful lines of action. These case studies present a new and creative synthesis of the multiple meanings of memory and representation within the context of contemporary perceptions of truth.