TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akker,Chiel van den
TI  - The exemplifying past: a philosophy of history 
SN  - 9789048537891
AV  - D16 .E946 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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