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30The Need for Quinean Pragmatism in the Theory of HistoryEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 8 (2). 2016.I present the history of philosophy, and history more generally, as a context of ideas, with respect to which philosophers and historians share concerns about the meaning of the texts they both use, and where for some there is a principled contrast between seeing meaning in quasi-mathematical terms (“a philosophical stance”) or in terms of context (“a historical stance”). I introduce this imagined (but not imaginary) world of ideas as temporally extended. Returning to my early research into the …Read more
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62Historians and Their DutiesHistory and Theory 43 (4): 103-117. 2004.We need to specify what ethical responsibility historians, as historians, owe, and to whom. We should distinguish between natural duties and obligations, and recognize that historians' ethical responsibility is of the latter kind. We can discover this responsibility by using the concept of “accountability”. Historical knowledge is central. Historians' central ethical responsibility is that they ought to tell the objective truth. This is not a duty shared with everybody, for the right to truth va…Read more
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FR Ankersmit, History and Tropology: The Rise and Fall of MetaphorHistory and Theory 36 406-415. 1997.
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13Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography (review)Philosophy 80 (2): 292-300. 2005.
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18Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to PracticeJournal of the Philosophy of History 3 (1): 79-89. 2009.
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George Pavlakos's Our Knowledge of the Law: Objectivity and Practice in Legal Theory (review)Social and Legal Studies 18 568-570. 2009.
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"The Writing of History. Literary Form and Historical Understanding": Edited by Robert H. Canary and Henry Kozicki (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 20 (2): 187. 1980.
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Henry Hobhouse, "Forces of change: An unorthodox view of history"Journal of Value Inquiry 27 (3/4): 571. 1993.
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Peter Charles Hoffer's The Historians' Paradox: The Study of History in Our Time (review)American Historical Review 115 186. 2010.
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15Hans Kellner, "language and historical representation: Getting the story crooked" (review)History and Theory 30 (3): 356. 1991.
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20Paul Veyne, "writing history: Essay on epistemology" (review)History and Theory 26 (1): 99. 1987.
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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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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 |