The What and the Why of History: Philosophical Essays (Philosophy of History and Culture)

The What and the Why of History: Philosophical Essays (Philosophy of History and Culture)

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The What and the Why of History deals with history as a cognitive discipline concerned to establish justifiable knowledge about a past we can never experience. It is divided into three parts. The first focuses on the conditions that are presupposed when historians offer explanations of what they have come to know. But whatever is to be explained must first come to be known, and the second part is concerned with the character of the cognitive activity which is the constitution of the historical past. The point is that we must attend to the historical enterprise on its own terms, and not try to make it fit the epistemology of natural science or of common sense. The last section deals with Collingwood. It is shown that his characteristic positions contribute to an account of historical knowing, not historical explanation.

The What and the Why of History: Philosophical Essays (Philosophy of History and Culture),L.J. Goldstein,Leon J. Goldstein,Brill Academic Publishers,9004103082,General,History,History - General History,Interior Design - General,Philosophy,Philosophy Of History,Epistemology, theory of knowledge,History: theory & methods

Book Contents:

1. Three Faiths, One God: The Formative Faith and Practice of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
2. Vital Color: Color Themes for Every Room
3. Washington DC Metropolitan Home Book , Second Edition
4. Without God or His Doubles: Realism, Relativism and Rorty (Philosophy of History and Culture)
5. Women in Ugarit and Israel: Their Social and Religious Position in the Context of the Ancient Near East (Oudtestamentische Studien)
6. World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation
7. A Commentary on Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum: With Latin Text and English Translation (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums, Bd 31)
8. A Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus
9. Aetiana: The Method and Intellectual Context of a Doxographer : The Sources (Philosophia Antiqua)
10. A Handbook of Germanic Etymology

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