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Author | : Robert C. Scharff |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2014-02-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134626738 |
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In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism’s notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. How History Matters to Philosophy takes a fresh look at this debate. Current discussion usually starts with the question of whether philosophy’s past should matter, but Scharff argues that the very existence of the debate itself demonstrates that it already does matter. After an introductory review of the recent literature, he develops his case in two parts. In Part One, he shows how history actually matters for even Plato’s Socrates, Descartes, and Comte, in spite of their apparent promotion of conspicuously ahistorical Platonic, Cartesian, and Positivistic ideals. In Part Two, Scharff argues that the real issue is not whether history matters; rather it is that we already have a history, a very distinctive and unavoidable inheritance, which paradoxically teaches us that history’s mattering is merely optional. Through interpretations of Dilthey, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, he describes what thinking in a historically determinate way actually involves, and he considers how to avoid the denial of this condition that our own philosophical inheritance still seems to expect of us. In a brief conclusion, Scharff explains how this book should be read as part of his own effort to acknowledge this condition rather than deny it.
Author | : Robert C. Scharff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780415709224 |
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With the era of positivistic hostility toward philosophy's past ending, renewed debate has started concerning the relationship between philosophers and their history. The lead question is usually whether philosophy's past should matter to present practice, but Scharff argues that it inevitably does matter. In Part 1, he shows how history matters even for Socrates, Descartes, and Comte, despite their seemingly ahistorical Platonic, Cartesian, and Positivistic ideals. In Part 2, through interpretations of Dilthey, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, Scharff describes what "having a history" involves today, when the tradition we inherit encourages the idea that having one is optional and surmountable.
Author | : Anthony K. Jensen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107027322 |
Download Nietzsche's Philosophy of History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An exposition of the development of Nietzsche's philosophy of history in its historical context and of its relevance to contemporary theories.
Author | : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Adrian Currie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-08-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1108605028 |
Download Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Historical sciences like paleontology and archaeology have uncovered unimagined, remarkable and mysterious worlds in the deep past. How should we understand the success of these sciences? What is the relationship between knowledge and history? In Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past: History Matters, Adrian Currie examines recent paleontological work on the great changes that occurred during the Cretaceous period - the emergence of flowering plants, the splitting of the mega-continent Gondwana, and the eventual fall of the dinosaurs - to analyse the knowledge of historical scientists, and to reflect upon the nature of history. He argues that distinctively historical processes are 'peculiar': they have the capacity to generate their own highly specific dynamics and rules. This peculiarity, Currie argues, also explains the historian's interest in narratives and stories: the contingency, complexity and peculiarity of the past demands a narrative treatment. Overall, Currie argues that history matters for knowledge.
Author | : Jorge J. E. Gracia |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1991-11-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438404611 |
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This book is a systematic and comprehensive treatment of issues involved in philosophical historiography. It deals with such topics as the relation of philosophy to its history, the role of value judgments in historical accounts, the value of the history of philosophy for philosophy, the nature and role of texts and their interpretation in the history of philosophy, historiographical method, and the stages of development of philosophical progress. The book defends two main theses. The first is that the history of philosophy must be done philosophically, that is, it must include philosophical judgments. The second is that one way to bring a rapprochement between Anglo-American and Continental philosophy is through the study of the history of philosophy and its historiography. An extensive bibliography of pertinent materials and detailed indexes close the book.
Author | : Bernard P. Dauenhauer |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0820338095 |
Download At the Nexus of Philosophy and History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The relationship between philosophy and history has long been a matter of contention. Philosophers have claimed that their pursuit of universal law and eternal verities elevated them beyond historians, who merely dabbled with the vagaries of the particular and the contingent. Historians responded with the argument that philosophy was important only in relation to its contribution to concrete, historical truth. A greater challenge for both philosophers and historians than the defense of either of these positions has been to understand the convoluted issues surrounding the intersection of their respective disciplines. In At the Nexus of Philosophy and History, Bernard P. Dauenhauer has collected eleven essays that explore the relationship between the two disciplines and provide a significant, innovative response to the problems created by such exploration. The original essays collected in this volume challenge the artificial distinctions and disciplinary parochialism that have too often characterized traditional academic debate. Instead of advancing any one elaborate theory, At the Nexus of Philosophy and History seeks to encourage a balanced approach toward the exploration of the two fields by demonstrating that a full understanding of the one is impossible without knowledge of the other.
Author | : Paul A. Roth |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0810140896 |
Download The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Mogens Lærke |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199857164 |
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Many chapters articulate new, detailed methods of doing history of philosophy. These present conflicting visions of the history of philosophy as an autonomous sub-discipline of professional philosophy.
Author | : Peter Adamson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2014-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199674531 |
Download Classical Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Readership: Anyone interested in philosophy, the history of ideas, or the ancient Greek world