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21Jarvie’s RationalitätstreitIn Raphael Sassower & Nathaniel Laor (eds.), The Impact of Critical Rationalism: Expanding the Popperian Legacy Through the Works of Ian C. Jarvie, Springer Verlag. pp. 241-255. 2019.As a Popperian, Ian C. Jarvie takes falsifiability to be a defining characteristic of rationality. This suggests that any disagreement about the truth or falsity of a particular belief that can be settled by further evidence should be rationally resolvable, at least in the following sense. Niceties about probabilities aside, one should be able to specify under what conditions, that is, given what evidence, one would surrender that belief. Put another way, if a belief will not be given up no matt…Read more
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17Interpretation as explanationIn David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. pp. 179--196. 1991.
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17Three Dogmas of ExplanationHistory and Theory 47 (1): 57-68. 2008.What ought to count as an explanation? Such normative questions—what “ought to be” the case?—typically mark the domain that those with a type of philosophical aspiration call their own. Debates in the philosophy of history have for too long been marred by bad advice from just such aspirants. The recurrent suggestion has been that historians have a particular need for a theory of explanation since they seem to have none of their own. But neither the study of the natural sciences nor the study of …Read more
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17Book Reviews : Objectivity, Empiricism and Truth. By R. H. Newell. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. Pp. 124. $24.95 (cloth (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (2): 244-247. 1989.
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16The philosophical structure of historical explanationNorthwestern University Press. 2020.This book develops a philosophical structure for historical explanation that resolves disputes about the scientific status of history that have persisted since the nineteenth century. It does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative and by making their logic explicit. The books formulates a unique positive account of the logic of narrative explanations. This logic reveals how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible. The book also dev…Read more
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16Review of William Rehg, Cogent Science in Context: The Science Wars, Argumentation Theory, and Habermas (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (10). 2009.
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14An Audience for History? Review Essay of Kalle Pihlainen’s The Work of HistoryJournal of the Philosophy of History 14 (1): 81-92. 2018.Kalle Pihlainen’s book reworks seven essays published over the last dozen years. Pihlainen’s Preface and Hayden White’s Foreword articulate a cri de cœur. Both fear that something important has been missed. White’s Foreword somewhat cryptically characterizes Pihlainen’s book as “metacritical,” and locates Pihlainen in the role of being a “serious reader” for the community of theorists of history. What does it mean to be a “serious” reader? White never says. But following White’s hint, Pihlainen …Read more
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13Redrawing the Lines: Analytic Philosophy, Deconstruction, and Literary TheoryJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (2): 180-182. 1991.
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13Review of Jonathan Gorman, Historical Judgement: The Limits of Historiographical Choice (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (8). 2008.
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12The Philosophy of Social Science in the Twentieth Century: Analytic Traditions: Reflections on the RationalitätstreitIn Ian Jarvie Jesus Zamora Bonilla (ed.), The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences, . pp. 103. 2011.
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12Beyond Understanding: The Career of the Concept of Understanding in the Human SciencesIn Stephen P. Turner & Paul A. Roth (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Real Understanding The Experience Distant — Understanding Hawaiian‐style The Experience Near — Understanding Holocaust Perpetrators Conclusion Notes.
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10MURRAY G. MURPHEY, "Philosophical Foundations of Historical Knowledge" (review)History and Theory 34 (3): 231. 1995.
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9Review of Paul Andrew Roth: Meaning and Method in the Social Sciences: A Case for Methodological Pluralism (review)Ethics 99 (2): 434-435. 1989.
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9SearleworldHistory and Theory 51 (1): 123-142. 2012.ABSTRACTJohn Searle's most recent effort to account for human social institutions claims to provide a synthesis of the explanatory and the normative while simultaneously dismissing as confused and wrongheaded theorists who held otherwise. Searle, although doubtless alert to the usual considerations for separating the normative and the explanatory projects, announces at the outset that he conceives of matters quite differently. Searle's reason for reconceiving the field rests on his claim that bo…Read more
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8Book Reviews : Stewart Richards, ed. Philosophy and Sociology of Science: An Introduction. 2d ed. Blackwell, Oxford, 1987. Pp. 240, US$15.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 21 (1): 130-132. 1991.
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8Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan, eds., Images in Our Souls: Cavell, Phychoanalysis, and CinemaJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (2): 184-186. 1989.
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6Raymond Martin, "the past within us: An empirical approach to philosophy of history" (review)History and Theory 31 (2): 200. 1992.
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4Review of Robert Piercey, The Uses of the Past From Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (10). 2009.
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4Roth contends that the controversy in the philosophy of the social sciences over the canons of rationality is the product of the mistaken belief in methodological exclusivism. Drawing on work in contemporary epistemology by W.V.O. Quine, Richard Rorty and Paul Feyerabend, he argues that no single theory of human behavior has methodological priority. He demonstrates how rejecting the notion of universal norms of social inquiry neither reduces epistemology to empirical psychology nor entails epist…Read more
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3Book Reviews : Objectivity, Empiricism and Truth. By R. H. Newell. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. Pp. 124. $24.95 (cloth (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (2): 244-247. 1989.
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