Georg Gangl

I am a philosopher of historiography with a special interest in questions of evidence, narrative, historiographic method, and hindsight. I believe that the theories developed by informational epistemology and post-positivist philosophy of science over the last decades can be fruitfully applied to historiography in an effort to reconstruct and justify how historiography produces knowledge of the past. I further believe that many of the most central questions in the philosophy of history can only be answered through a practical examination of actual historiography, for which we need appropriate philosophical research programmes.