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Originally published in 1977. In this major work, an overview of the structure of historical writing, Maurice Mandelbaum clarifies some of the problems concerning the nature of history as a discipline, of what constitutes explanation in history, and whether historical knowledge is as reliable as other forms of knowledge. The work is divided into three parts. The first part provides an analytic account of different types of historical inquiry. The second treats at length the nature of causal explanation in everyday life and in science and considers the relation between causes and laws. The final part analyzes the concept of objectivity and estimates both the extent to which the inquiries of historians can be said to be objective and the limits of that objectivity in some types of historical accounts.

History --- Philosophy. --- History of philosophy, philosophical traditions

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'The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy' provides a thorough exploration of Roman philosophy as a valuable study in its own right. Topics covered include ethnicity, cultural identity, literary originality, the environment, Roman philosophical figures, epistemology, and ethics.

Philosophy, Ancient. --- Philosophy. --- History of philosophy, philosophical traditions.

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Originally published in 1970. Many contemporary philosophers have thought that certain philosophic disputes could be settled by using the concept of meaninglessness. To solve philosophic problems in this way, however, it seemed necessary to provide a reliable criterion for deciding when a particular sentence or statement is meaningless. But devising such a criterion has proved to be very difficult. In fact, in recent years many philosophers have become quite skeptical about the adequacy of the standard criteria of meaninglessness. Some of the more radical skeptics have even argued that the concept of meaninglessness, as it is used by philosophers, is itself defective and would be even if an adequate criterion could be found. Professor Erwin, in a systematic study of the concept of meaninglessness, begins by examining the standard criteria of meaninglessness proposed by philosophers. These criteria include operationalist, verificationist, and type or category criteria. Each of these criteria, he argues, is inadequate. Erwin then turns to the question, What kinds of items, if any, should be said to be meaningless? Most philosophers concerned with this question have claimed that only sentences, not statements or propositions, can be meaningless. Erwin argues, however, that this is wrong: statements (and propositions) can be meaningless. Once this is demonstrated, it can then be shown that the more radical skepticism about the philosophic use of the concept of meaninglessness is misguided. In particular, Erwin shows that the following assertions of the radical skeptic are false: that what is meaningless is relative to a given language or to a given time, and that the concept of meaninglessness forces us to condemn as nonsense metaphors comprehensible to competent speakers of English. In his concluding chapter, Erwin considers the implications of there not being any adequate general criterion of meaninglessness. He then tries to show how the concept of meaninglessness, when interpreted in the manner he suggests, can be profitably used by philosophers, despite the many persuasive objections to its use that philosophers have raised in their disputes over it.

Meaninglessness (Philosophy) --- Nihilism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Skepticism --- History of philosophy, philosophical traditions

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In this collective critical study of German philosophy in the 19th century, a team of experts explore the influential figures associated with the period - including Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Frege - and provide fresh accounts of the philosophical movements and key debates with which they engaged.

Philosophy, German --- Filosofi --- Philosoph. --- Philosophie. --- Philosophy, German. --- Filosofie. --- historia. --- 1800-1899 --- 1800-talet --- Duitsland. --- Deutschland. --- Tyskland. --- Philosophy. --- History of philosophy, philosophical traditions.

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"In Figural Realism, White collects eight interrelated essays primarily concerned with the treatment of history in recent literary critical discourse. "'History' is not only an object we can study," White observes, "it is also and even primarily a certain kind of relationship to 'the past' mediated by a distinctive kind of written discourse. It is because historical discourse is actualized in its culturally significant form as a specific kind of writing that we may consider the relevance of literary theory to both the theory and the practice of historiography.""--Jacket.

Mimesis. --- Verteltheorie. --- Geschiedschrijving. --- Mimesis in literature. --- Literature and history. --- History in literature. --- Historiography. --- Criticism. --- Auerbach, Erich, --- Criticism --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Representation (Literature) --- Imitation in literature --- Realism in literature --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Historiography --- History of philosophy, philosophical traditions