The logic of history putting postmodernism in perspective
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2004
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| Acceso en línea: | Table of contents |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991007470709708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The possibility of historical knowledge
- Theories of truth
- Some common reasons for scepticism
- The meanings of texts, actions and events
- The meanings of texts
- Problems about knowing the meanings of texts
- The meaning of actions, events and practices in history
- Justifying descriptions of the past
- Justifying descriptions of single events
- Lawlike regularities
- Descriptions of social structures
- Causes of human actions
- Mental causes of human actions
- Cultural and social causes of human actions
- Conclusion
- Types of historical narrative
- Commonsense narratives
- Colligatory patterns
- Summary interpretations
- Judging historical narratives
- The credibility of historical narratives
- Fairness
- Causes and conditions in history
- The nature of causes and conditions in history
- Checking out particular causes and conditions
- Checking necessary and sufficient conditions by judging generalizations
- Historical explanations
- Genetic and contrastive explanations of individual actions
- Profound explanations
- Structural explanations.
