Historical Judgement: The Limits of Historiographical Choice

ISBN-13: 9781844651108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str.

Jonathan Gorman

Opis

Analyses the nature of historical judgement, factual and moral and addresses the core modern and postmodern problems of historical understanding and the ethics of the writing of history.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements 1. The argument 2. The philosophy of a discipline Respect for historiography Modelling a discipline: the truth of historical theory Description and prescription Justification in the second-order context: Popper and Hempel Justification in the second-order context: Kuhn Rival historiographies of science 3. Writing the history of historiography Historiography of historiography: prior considerations Our primary sources Our use of primary sources Choices and questions Character and consensus Historiography of historiography Historians' self-understanding 4. Pragmatic postmodernism Postmodernism Commonsense and experience: Hume Quine as postmodernist The costs of belief Quine not postmodern enough 5. The room for judgement Narrative truth A fancy view of truth Holistic choice Structuring factual synthesis Moral judgement in historiography Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Jonathan Gorman