Historical Explanation: An Anti-Causalist Approach - Rilegato

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Schumann, Gunnar

 
9781032586540: Historical Explanation: An Anti-Causalist Approach
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ISBN 10: 1032586540 ISBN 13: 9781032586540
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2023

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This book is concerned with the appropriate form of explanations in historiography and the social sciences. It combines action theory and philosophy of historiography and develops a theory of teleological explanations of human actions based on late-Wittgensteinian and Ordinary Language Philosophy insights.

In philosophy of action, many philosophers favor causal theories of human action. Additionally, in current philosophy of historiography the majority view is that historians should explain historical phenomena by their causes. This book pushes back against these mainstream views by reviving an anti-causal view of explanation of current and past human actions. The author argues that disciplines that deal with human actions require a certain form of explanation, namely a teleological or intentional explanation. This means that past human actions and their results will have to be explained by reasons of agents, not by causes. Therefore, historiography employs a method of explanation which is in stark contrast to the sciences. The author thus proposes a Verstehen (understanding) approach in historiography and the social sciences.

Historical Explanation will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of action, philosophy of history, and philosophy of the social sciences.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Gunnar Schumann is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany. He studied Philosophy, History of Art and Political Science. PhD in Philosophy 2012. He is the editor of Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography: Causal and Teleological Approaches (Routledge, 2019).

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2023
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1032586540
ISBN 13 
9781032586540
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
358
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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9781032586557: Historical Explanation: An Anti-Causalist Approach

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ISBN 10:  1032586559 ISBN 13:  9781032586557
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2025
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