The Logic of History: Putting Postmodernism in PerspectiveRoutledge, 1 มี.ค. 2004 - 222 หน้า The Logic of History reveals the rational basis for historians' descriptions, interpretations and explanations of past events. C. Behan McCullagh defends the practice of history as more reliable than has recently been acknowledged. Historians, he argues, make their accounts of the past as fair as they can and avoid misleading their readers. He explains and discusses postmodern criticisms of history, providing students and teachers of history with a renewed validation of their practice. McCullagh takes the history debate to a new stage with bold replies to the major questions historians face today. |
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The meanings of texts actions and events | 18 |
Problems about knowing the meanings of texts | 21 |
The meaning of actions events and practices in history | 37 |
Justifying descriptions of the past | 43 |
Commonsense narratives | 120 |
Colligatory patterns | 125 |
Summary interpretations | 132 |
Conclusion | 137 |
Judging historical interpretations | 138 |
Fairness | 144 |
The intelligibility of historical interpretations | 150 |
Causes and conditions in history | 152 |
Justifying descriptions of single events | 45 |
Lawlike regularities | 54 |
Accidental generalizations | 59 |
Descriptions of social structures | 63 |
Conclusion | 69 |
Causes of human actions | 70 |
Mental causes of human actions | 71 |
Cultural and social causes of human actions | 99 |
Conclusion | 113 |
Types of historical narrative | 116 |
Checking out particular causes and conditions | 158 |
Checking necessary and sufficient conditions by judging generalizations | 165 |
Historical explanations | 170 |
Genetic and contrastive explanations of individual actions | 172 |
Profound explanations | 177 |
Structural explanations | 184 |
Conclusion | 193 |
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Name index | 207 |
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The Logic of History: Putting Postmodernism in Perspective C. Behan McCullagh ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2004 |
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