The exemplifying past : a philosophy of history /
Akker, Chiel van den, 1974-
The exemplifying past : a philosophy of history / Chiel van den Akker. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (157 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Retroaction, Indeterminacy, and Seeing-in; 2 Periods and Other Minds; 3 Narrative Truth; 4 Resemblance, Substitution, Expression; 5 Exemplification; 6 Danto's End of Art; Bibliography; Index
This book addresses a wide range of philosophical problems about history and the semantics of time. Point of departure is the distinction between events under the description of past witnesses and their contemporaries and events under the description of historians. Its main claim is that a thesis on the past is exemplified rather than being justified by the available evidence. The book will not only appeal to philosophers and historians, but to students and scholars across the humanities.
9789048537891 9048537894
History--Philosophy.
Electronic Books.
D16 / .E946 2018
The exemplifying past : a philosophy of history / Chiel van den Akker. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (157 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Retroaction, Indeterminacy, and Seeing-in; 2 Periods and Other Minds; 3 Narrative Truth; 4 Resemblance, Substitution, Expression; 5 Exemplification; 6 Danto's End of Art; Bibliography; Index
This book addresses a wide range of philosophical problems about history and the semantics of time. Point of departure is the distinction between events under the description of past witnesses and their contemporaries and events under the description of historians. Its main claim is that a thesis on the past is exemplified rather than being justified by the available evidence. The book will not only appeal to philosophers and historians, but to students and scholars across the humanities.
9789048537891 9048537894
History--Philosophy.
Electronic Books.
D16 / .E946 2018