Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation

AvPaul A. Roth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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In The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Paul A. Roth develops an argument that resolves disputes persisting since the nineteenth century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their logic explicit, and revealing how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible.The book also develops a nonrealist (irrealist) metaphysics and epistemology of history—that is, it argues that there exists no one fixed past, but many pasts. It includes a novel reading of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, displaying how Kuhn offers a narrative explanation of theory change in science. And it situates narrative explanations within a naturalistic framework. The first four chapters defuse methodological and metaphysical objections to narrative explanations. The final three chapters explore how narrative explanations relate to other sciences. This book will be of interest to researchers in historiography, philosophy of history, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, and epistemology.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-30
Mått:157 x 231 x 17 mm
Vikt:633 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Northwestern University Press
ISBN:9780810140882

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PAUL A. ROTH is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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“In this clear, forceful, and inspiring book, Paul A. Roth sets for himself an audacious task: the revival of philosophy of history and a recalibration of how to understand and account for historical explanation. Roth succeeds and with surgical precision offers a new account of narrative historical explanation that holds its own distinct epistemological and metaphysical factors and yet also aligns with other forms of scientific knowledge. It is an erudite and original work that is essential reading for all scholars invested in understanding our relation to the past and the ways that the histories we write come to impact our present and future.” —Ethan Kleinberg, author of Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Reviving Analytic Philosophy of History2. Problems for Narratives Explanations: The Case of History3. The Pasts4. Essentially Narrative Explanations5. The Silence of the Norms6. Kuhn's Narrative Construction of Normal Science7. Methodological Naturalism and Its ConsequencesConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex