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22Discontinuity Pragmatically FramedNew Content is Available for Journal of the Philosophy of History. forthcoming._ Source: _Page Count 22 This is an attempt to discover and clarify the philosophical nature of what Eelco Runia claims to be his new and up-to-date philosophy of history, a programme offered in his 2014 book _Moved by the Past: Discontinuity and Historical Mutation_. His suggestion that his argument is a “dance” is taken seriously, and following an analysis of historical “meaning” and its time-extended nature it is argued that the book’s presentation commits Runia to a conception of meaning tha…Read more
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85Law as a moral idea • by Nigel SimmondsAnalysis 69 (2): 395-397. 2009.This is a pugnacious book, born of ancient controversy and attempting to return the debate to a time before the central jurisprudential questions were set by Hart and other legal positivists. Simmonds addresses those familiar with current analytical philosophy of law: those of us who know our Hart, Fuller, Dworkin, Raz, MacCormick and Kramer, and who perhaps need to have our attention drawn to Plato, Aristotle, Grotius, Hobbes and Kant. Presuming an informed readership, there is no bibliography,…Read more
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35Understanding History: An Introduction to Analytical Philosophy of HistoryUniversity of Ottawa Press. 1992.The problem of justifying historical methodologies is first set in the wider context of the philosophical problem of knowledge, then lucidly explained and ...
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2735Historical Judgement: The Limits of Historiographical ChoiceMcgill-Queen's University Press. 2007.The historical profession is not noted for examining its own methodologies. Indeed, most historians are averse to historical theory. In "Historical Judgement" Jonathan Gorman's response to this state of affairs is to argue that if we want to characterize a discipline, we need to look to persons who successfully occupy the role of being practitioners of that discipline. So to model historiography we must do so from the views of historians. Gorman begins by showing what it is to model a discipline…Read more
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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsProfessor Emeritus
Belfast, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Metaphilosophy |
Philosophy of Law |
Philosophy of Social Science |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
General Philosophy of Science |
PhilPapers Editorships
Philosophy of History |