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25Let many flowers BloomHistory and Theory 49 (3): 426-434. 2010.In this rich and sensible assessment of historians' practice and prospects, Allan Megill focuses on the obligation that historians have to support their accounts with evidence. He does this, first, by illustrating the difference between real and merely claimed evidence and, then, by giving an analysis of the underlying nature of evidence in historical accounts. Turning later to the question of how historians and their public should feel about diminishing unity in historiography and the practices…Read more
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34Having the experience: The next best thing to being there (review)Philosophical Studies 70 (3). 1993.
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9Forum" on Joyce Appleby, Lynn hunt, and Margaret Jacob, "telling the truth about history (review)History and Theory 34 (4): 320. 1995.
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6Explaining John Freind's "History of Physick"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 19 (4): 399. 1988.
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7Do historians need philosophy?History and Theory 45 (2): 252-260. 2006.The Logic of History: Putting Postmodernism in Perspective. By C. Behan McCullagh.
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140Do historians need philosophy?History and Theory 45 (2). 2006.The Logic of History: Putting Postmodernism in Perspective. By C. Behan McCullagh
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33Causes, Conditions, and Causal ImportanceHistory and Theory 21 (1): 53-74. 1982.Judgments which assign relative importance to the causes of particular results can be objective. Historians usually do and can use a factual principle of selection to distinguish between causes and conditions and between more and less important causes. The judgments which distinguish between causes and conditions and the judgments which distinguish between more and less important causes require radically different analyses. In A. M. Jones's work on the decline and fall of Rome, he argued that in…Read more
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108Beyond positivism: A research program for philosophy of historyPhilosophy of Science 48 (1): 112-121. 1981.It is argued that the debate over the positivist theory of historical explanation has made only a limited contribution to our understanding of how historians should defend the explanations they propose importantly because both positivists and their critics tacitly accepted two assumptions. The first assumption is that if the positivist analysis of historical explanation is correct, then historians ought to attempt to defend covering laws for each of the explanations they propose. The second is t…Read more
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20Of servants, lovers, and benefactors: Peirce's algebra of relatives of 1870 (review)Journal of Philosophical Logic 7 (1). 1978.
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30History and the Brewmaster's NoseCanadian Journal of Philosophy 15 (2). 1985.A good historian often can assess the relative likelihood of competing historical claims more reliably on implicit grounds - intuitively, if you like - than in any other available way. This idea has been a persistent theme of Verstehen-theorists. It is, in essence, the old saw that there is no substitute for the brewmaster's nose, adapted to the art of producing historical brew. If true, it augments the importance of the historian relative to that of his arguments, and thereby gives him a dignit…Read more
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17The Kinds of Things: A Theory of Personal Identity Based on Transcendental ArgumentPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 62 (1): 240-243. 1996.
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29The Methodological Heritage of Newton. Edited by Robert E. Butts and John W. Davis. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1970. Pp. xii and 170. £1.75p.) (review)Philosophy 46 (178): 366-. 1971.
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19Wisdom Without Answers: A Brief Introduction to PhilosophyWadsworth Publishing Company. 1989.By speaking directly to the students in a personal tone, this text invites students to get excited about philosophy and to explore how philosophy affects them. Fourteen lively chapters take students deep into the world of philosophical thinking and challenge them to ponder life's big questions.
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85Review: Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons (review)Mind 115 (458): 472-475. 2006.
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65Review: Richard Sorabji: Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death (review)Mind 117 (465): 223-228. 2008.
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164What really mattersSynthese 162 (3). 2008.What really matters fundamentally in survival? That question—the one on which I focus—is not about what should matter or about metaphysics. Rather, it is a factual question the answer to which can be determined, if at all, only empirically. I argue that the answer to it is that in the case of many people it is not one’s own persistence, but continuing in ways that may involve one’s own cessation that really matters fundamentally in survival. Call this the surprising result. What are we to make o…Read more
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81“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, . . . Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.” – Luis Buñuel..
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37Von Wright, action and causation: An addendum to Kim's critiquePhilosophical Studies 28 (4). 1975.
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1The Early Modern Subject: Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity from Descartes to HumeGrazer Philosophische Studien 86 (1): 284-286. 2012.
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40The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal IdentityColumbia University Press. 2006.This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Foucault, Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. The authors open with ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the materialistic atomists laid the groundwor…Read more
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