The Primacy of Method in Historical Research: Philosophy of History and the Perspective of Meaning

ISBN-13: 9780367642907 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 210 str.

Jonas Ahlskog

Opis

How does history relate to the past? In contrast to the claim that the past for history is reducible to evidential, psychological, practical and retrospective relations, this book argues that historical relations to the past are irreducible products of the logical commitments of history as method.

Spis treści

1. The Primacy of Method in Historical Research

2. Metaphilosophy, Empiricism and the Historical Past

3. Narrativism and the Reality of the Historical Past

4. The Internal Relation Between Practice and History

5. The Presence of the Past

6. The Existential Relevance of the Historical Past

7. Historical Evidence and the Perspective of Meaning

8. Testimonial Knowledge and the Method of History

9. Historical Method and the Limits of Hermeneutics of Suspicion

10. Conclusion: History as the Primacy of Method

O autorze

Jonas Ahlskog is Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy and History of Ideas at the Department of Philosophy, Åbo Akademi University, Finland.