A philosophical examination of the study of history, from its logic and semantics to its metaphysical and epistemological implications.
This book is intended for the highly intelligent reader, who is interested in considering the difficulties, problems, and challenges of understanding and writing about the human past. It is popularly enough written, hopefully, to be a joy to read, and scholarly enough to be seriously instructive. The book has two major purposes, first, to give a reader an extensive, detailed overview of the field as it currently exists, and, second, to considerably enlarge the field itself, as it is the first book in the area to consider not only the epistemology of the field, but, in detail, its logic and semantics, its metaphysics, its axiology and its aesthetics.
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John Lange, the author of Philosophy and the Challenge of the Future, is a full professor at Queens College, of the City University of New York. He usually teaches in the areas of epistemology, the philosophy of history, and the philosophy of anticipation, exploring intellectual territories outside the typical borders of the discipline, such as reprogenetics, cloning, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, artificial life, unusual moral communities, and identity criteria, both with respect to sameness of person and sameness of species. He has had one book published by a major university press, the Princeton University Press, and has edited another, published the Stanford University Press. He also wrote The Philosophy of Historiography, and has had a number of articles published in professional journals, such as Mind, Ratio, and History and Theory.
Zusammenfassung
This book is intended for the highly intelligent reader, who is interested in considering the difficulties, problems, and challenges of understanding and writing about the human past. It is popularly enough written, hopefully, to be a joy to read, and scholarly enough to be seriously instructive. The book has two major purposes, first, to give a reader an extensive, detailed overview of the field as it currently exists, and, second, to considerably enlarge the field itself, as it is the first book in the area to consider not only the epistemology of the field, but, in detail, its logic and semantics, its metaphysics, its axiology and its aesthetics.
Inhalt
Prologue
Part One: Preliminary Considerations
Part One Footnotes
Part Two: Logic and Semantics
Part Two Footnotes
Part Three: Metaphysics
Part Three Footnotes
Part Four: Epistemology
Part Four Footnotes
Part Five: Axiology
Part Five Footnotes
Part Six: Aesthetics
Part Six Footnotes
Epilogue
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