Towards a Revival of Analytical Philosophy of History

Around Paul A. Roth's Vision of Historical Sciences
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35687-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 110, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 611 g

Reihe: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities

Towards a Revival of Analytical Philosophy of History: Around Paul A. Roth's Vision of Historical Sciences presents the state of the art in the philosophy of history. The purpose of this book is to discuss the revival of analytical philosophy of history proposed by Paul A. Roth, a world-known analytical philosopher of the social sciences and the humanities. The first four papers outline the reasons for the decline of philosophy of history, its present phase of development, and its possible future. The other authors discuss important questions of this field of research including: the ontological status of the past, the epistemological assumptions of historical research, the explanatory dimensions of the narrative. In the last group of papers, the authors apply some of Roth's theoretical ideas within their own fields of research.

Contributors are: Krzysztof Brzechczyn, Nancy D. Campbell, Serge Grigoriev, Géza Kállay, Piotr Kowalewski, Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen, Chris Lorenz, Herman Paul, Dawid Rogacz, Paul A. Roth, Laura Stark, Stephen Turner, Rafal Pawel Wierzchoslawski, and Eugen Zelenák.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brzechczyn, Krzysztof

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichtsphilosophie, Philosophie der Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Krzysztof Brzechczyn

1 Reviving Philosophy of History
Paul A. Roth

2 Why Did Analytical Philosophy of History Disappear? Three Narratives of Decline
Herman Paul

3 The Mysterious Case of Analytic Philosophy of History: Paradigm Turn in Historiography Revisited
Piotr Kowalewski

4 Philosophy of History and Analytical Philosophy in Germany: A Special Relationship?
Chris Lorenz

5 The Future of Philosophy of Historiography: Reviving or Reinventing?
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen

6 A Pragmatist Critique of Dogmatic Philosophy of History
Serge Grigoriev

7 Non-representationalism in Philosophy of History: A Case Study
Eugen Zelenák

8 What Do Narratives Explain? Roth, Mink and Weber
Stephen Turner

9 How Do Narratives Explain? A Comment from the Point of View of Poznan School of Methodology
Krzysztof Brzechczyn

10 Antinomies, Multiple Realities and the Pasts
Rafal Pawel Wierzchoslawski

11 Is a Dramatic Theory of History Possible? Shakespeare’s Richardii and ‘Historical Truth’
Géza Kállay

12 Making up ‘Vulnerable’ People: Human Subjects and the Subjective Experience of Medical Experiment
Nancy D. Campbell and Laura Stark

13 “Spring and Autumn Annals” as Narrative Explanation
Dawid Rogacz

14 Comments and Replies
Paul A. Roth

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Krzysztof Brzechczyn is (titular) Professor at Institute of Philosophy in Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Poland. He has authored four books (in Polish) and numerous papers in Chinese, English, German, Italian, Polish, and Romanian. He edited Modeling in History and coedited Thinking about Provincialism in Thinking and Models in Science. His fields of interests are: philosophy of history, philosophy of social sciences, political and social philosophy, theory of history.