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1Historians on MiraclesIn God Matters: Readings in the Philosophy of Religion, Longman Publications. 2003.Secular academic historians of religious subject matter often characterize their approach as objective, contrasting it with the approaches of religiously-oriented historians. On the assumption that the denial of a theological claim is itself a theological claim, I question this characterization. After a brief discussion of Spinoza and Hume on miracles, I survey the work of several secular, academic historians of the New Testament in order to illustrate how on the issue of miracles they are commi…Read more
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3On Set Theory and Royce's Modes of ActionTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 12 (3). 1976.
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11On Individuality and Quantification in Peirce's Published Logic Papers, 1867-1885Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 12 (3). 1976.
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2Some Comments on DeMorgan, Peirce, and the Logic of RelationsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 12 (3). 1976.
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1On Peirce's Anticipation of the Semantic Notion of Truth: A Dialogue with VelianTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 13 (4). 1977.
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3Why do we interpret the past as we do, rather than in some other way or not at all? What is the significance of the fact that we interpret the past? What are historical interpretations? Raymond Martin's approach to these questions transcends both the positivist and humanistic perspectives that have polarized Anglo-American philosophy of history. Martin goes to the source of this polarization by diagnosing a deep-seated flaw in the dominant analytic approach during the period from 1935 to 1975, n…Read more
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9God Matters: Readings in the Philosophy of ReligionLongman Publications. 2003.God Matters is a state-of-the-art, accessible anthology of the major issues in philosophy of religion. Its accessibility is due to its mix of classic readings and brand new readings about contemporary issues, commissioned specifically with an undergraduate student in mind. These commissioned readings make the difficult concepts of contemporary philosophy of religion easy to understand, and are complemented by key excerpts from more technical philosophers' writing on the same subjects. The result…Read more
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1Hintikka’s Intentions and Possible WorldsReview of Metaphysics 33 (1). 1979.THIS BOOK is, in effect, a sequel to the author’s Models for Modalities and purports to carry forward the case for the feasibility of a "possible-worlds" semantics. The main contention of the book is that such a semantics has its chief application in the study of propositional attitudes. But a good deal more than this is claimed, namely, applicability to the study of epistemic notions in general, to the study of causality and the language of the sciences, to the exact study of phenomenology, to …Read more
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5Narration, Objectivity, and Methodological TruthThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 8 133-144. 2000.In this essay, I argue that scientists and historians employ different strategies to overcome a common problem: subjectivity. The difference in their strategies is symptomatic of a fundamental difference between science and the humanities. It is that whereas physical scientists, in trying to be objective, aspire to the view from nowhere, humanistic historians, in trying to be objective, aspire to the views from everywhere.
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2The effects of social interaction upon persistence of self-punitive behaviorBulletin of the Psychonomic Society 4 (4): 423-425. 1974.
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10The essential difference between history and scienceHistory and Theory 36 (1): 1-14. 1997.My thesis is that there is a deep, intractable difference, not between history and science per se, but between paradigmatically central kinds of historical interpretations-call them humanistic historical interpretations-and theories of any sort that are characteristic of the physical sciences. The difference is that unlike theories in the physical sciences, good humanistic historical interpretations reveal subjectivity, agency, and meaning. I use the controversy provoked by Gordon Wood's recent …Read more
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2Progress in historical studiesHistory and Theory 37 (1). 1998.Everyone with their feet on the ground admits that in the physical sciences there has been progress. One can debate the niceties. The hard rock is that our ability to predict and control natural events and processes is greater now than it has ever been. And there has been astonishing technological fallout
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17Objectivity and Meaning in Historical Studies: Toward a Post-analytic ViewHistory and Theory 32 (1): 25-50. 1993.Many contemporary historians and philosophers are dissatisfied both with the accounts traditional analytic philosophers have given of the epistemological dimensions of historical studies and also with the ways many continental philosophers more recently have brushed aside the need for any such accounts. Yet no one has yet proposed a unified research program that could serve as the central focus for a better epistemologically-oriented approach. Such a research program would not only address epist…Read more
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2Let 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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3Having 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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19Explaining 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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7Do 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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