Justifying Historical Descriptions

Klappentext This book attempts to establish the conditions that warrant belief in historical descriptions. Zusammenfassung In common with history! all the social sciences crucially rely on descriptions of the past for their evidence. But when! if ever! is it reasonable to regard such descriptions as true? This book attempts to establish the conditions that warrant belief in historical descriptions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction: truth and justification; 2. Justifying singular descriptions: arguments to the best explanation; 3. Justifying singular descriptions: statistical inferences; 4. Justifying singular descriptions: arguments from criteria and arguments from analogy; 5. Some common inferences in history; 6. Historical generalizations; 7. Justifying singular causal judgements in history; 8. Judgements of 'the most significant cause' in history; 9. Epilogue: truth and interpretation in history; Bibliography; Indices.

Product details

• Authors: C. Behan McCullagh, Christopher Behan McCullagh
• Assisted by: Ernest Sosa (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.1984
• EAN: 9780521318303
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31830-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries