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Informationen zum Autor Aviezer Tucker is a Gvirtzman Memorial Foundation Fellow and teaches at the CEVRO Institute in Prague. He held research positions at the Australian National University, New York University, Columbia University and the Central European University in Prague. He is the author of Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography (2004) and a past president of the Society for the Philosophy of History. Klappentext The philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation and narrative. Do we possess knowledge of the past? Do we just have probable beliefs about the past, or is historiography a piece of convincing fiction? The philosophy of history is the direct philosophical examination of history, whether it is necessary or contingent, whether it has a direction or whether it is coincidental, and if it has a direction, what it is, and how and why it is unfolding? The fifty entries in this companion cover the main issues in the philosophies of historiography and history, including natural history and the practices of historians. Written by an international and multi-disciplinary group of experts, these clearly written entries present a cutting-edge updated picture of current research in the philosophies of historiography and history. This companion will be of interest to philosophers, historians, natural historians, and social scientists. Zusammenfassung The philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation, and narrative. The philosophy of history is the direct philosophical examination of history, whether it is necessary or contingent, whether it has a direction, or whether it is coincidental. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xi Glossary of Terms xii 1 Introduction 1 Aviezer Tucker Part I Major Fields 7 2 Philosophy of Historiography 9 Peter Kosso 3 Philosophy of History 26 ZdenFk VaSíCek 4 Philosophical Issues in Natural History and Its Historiography 44 Carol E. Cleland 5 Historians and Philosophy of Historiography 63 John Zammito Part II Basic Problems 85 6 Historiographic Evidence and Confirmation 87 Mark Day and Gregory Radick 7 Causation in Historiography 98 Aviezer Tucker 8 Historiographic Counterfactuals 109 Elazar Weinryb 9 Historical Necessity and Contingency 120 Yemima Ben-Menahem 10 Explanation in Historiography 131 Graham Macdonald and Cynthia Macdonald 11 Historiographic Understanding 142 Giuseppina D'Oro 12 Colligation 152 C. Behan McCullagh 13 The Laws of History 162 Stephan Berry 14 Historiographic Objectivity 172 Paul Newall 15 Realism about the Past 181 Murray Murphey 16 Anti-realism about the Past 190 Fabrice Pataut 17 Narrative and Interpretation 199 F. R. Ankersmit 18 The Ontology of the Objects of Historiography 209 Lars Udehn 19 Origins: Common Causes in Historiographic Reasoning 220 Aviezer Tucker 20 Phylogenetic Inference 231 Matt Haber 21 Historicism 243 Robert D'Amico 22 Ethics and the Writing of Historiography 253 Jonathan Gorman 23 Logical Fallacies of Historians 262 Paul Newall 24 Historical Fallacies of Historians 274 Carlos Spoerhase and Colin G. King Part III Philosophy and Sub-fields of Historiography 285 25 Philosophy of History of Science 287 Nicholas Jardine 26 Philosophies of Historio...
