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Legal consciousness : a metahistoryIn Maksymilian Del Mar & Michael Lobban (eds.), Law in theory and history: new essays on a neglected dialogue, Hart Publishing. 2016.
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3Ethics and the Writing of HistoriographyIn Aviezer Tucker (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: References.
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21Three Philosophical Moralists: Mill, Kant and Sartre. An Introduction to EthicsPhilosophical Quarterly 41 (162): 116-117. 1991.
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5Value and Justification: The Foundations of Liberal Theory (review)Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 33 353-356. 1991.
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26Traditions in Philosophy of HistoryMaynooth Philosophical Papers 9 59-79. 2018.I summarize the history of twentieth-century theorizing about history by historians and by philosophers of different traditions. I clarify the nature of ‘analytical’ philosophy, with philosophical arguments imagined to exist in a shared atemporal space. Analytical philosophy of history largely presupposed David Hume’s empiricism, explicit in Carl Hempel’s 1942 analysis of historical explanation as causal. Others argued for reasons instead, but by 1965 analytical philosophers were analysing histo…Read more
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37The Normativity of Logic in the History of IdeasIntellectual History Review 21 (1): 3-13. 2011.(2011). The Normativity of Logic in the History of Ideas. Intellectual History Review: Vol. 21, Post-Analytic Hermeneutics: Themes from Mark Bevir's Philosophy of History, pp. 3-13. doi: 10.1080/17496977.2011.546631
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10Philosophical ConfidenceRoyal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 22 71-79. 1987.Analytical philosophers, if they are true to their training, never forget the first lesson of analytical philosophy: philosophers have no moral authority.In so far as analytical philosophers believe this, they find it easy to live with. For them even to assert, let alone successfully lay claim to, moral authority would require, first, hard work of some non-analytical and probably mistaken kind and, secondly, personality traits of leadership or confidence or even charisma, which philosophers may …Read more
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1Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography. Review of Tucker (review)Philosophy 80 (312): 292-300. 2005.
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95Paul A. Roth and the Revival of Analytical Philosophy of HistoryJournal of the Philosophy of History 14 (1): 104-117. 2018.Krzysztof Brzechczyn’s important collection around Roth’s “revival” stimulates thought about the approaches adopted by analytical philosophers of history. Roth revives Danto’s 1965 pragmatic “constructivist” insights: in a narrative, earlier “events under a description” are described in terms of possibly unknowable later ones and, following Mink, in terms of possibly unknowable later concepts. Roth thinks of the resulting narrative explanation as justified in virtue of its constituting the objec…Read more
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14Discontinuity Pragmatically FramedJournal of the Philosophy of History 11 (2): 127-148. 2017._ Source: _Volume 11, Issue 2, pp 127 - 148 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 concep…Read more
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16Historical Judgement: The Limits of Historiographical ChoiceRoutledge. 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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25Rights and Reason: An Introduction to the Philosophy of RightsRoutledge. 2003.In "Rights and Reason", Jonathan Gorman sets discussion of the 'rights debate' within a wide-ranging philosophical and historical framework. Drawing on positions in epistemology, metaphysics and the theory of human nature as well as on the ideas of canonical thinkers, Gorman provides an introduction to the philosophy of rights that is firmly grounded in the history of philosophy as well as the concerns of contemporary political and legal philosophy. The book gives readers a clear sense that, jus…Read more
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5Review: Philosophical Fascination with Whole Historical Texts (review)History and Theory 36 (3): 406-415. 1997.
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32The 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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61Historians 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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14Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography (review)Philosophy 80 (2): 292-300. 2005.
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19Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to PracticeJournal of the Philosophy of History 3 (1): 79-89. 2009.
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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsProfessor Emeritus
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