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Logic of Historical Explanation

Author : Clayton Roberts
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271042992
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Logic of Historical Explanation written by Clayton Roberts and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author provides a key to understanding the role of covering laws in historical explanation. He does so by distinguishing between their use at the macro - and micro- levels, a distinction that no other scholar has made. He then sets forth the logic of an explanatory narrative, explores the nature of rational explanation, and distinguishes the logic of historical interpretation from the logic of historical explanation.

The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation

Author : Paul A. Roth
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810140896
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation written by Paul A. Roth and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Paul A. Roth resolves disputes persisting since the nineteenth century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their logic explicit, and revealing how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible. Roth situates narrative explanations within a naturalistic framework and develops a nonrealist (irrealist) metaphysics and epistemology of history—arguing that there exists no one fixed past, but many pasts. The book includes a novel reading of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, showing how it offers a narrative explanation of theory change in science. This book will be of interest to researchers in historiography, philosophy of history, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, and epistemology.

Logics of History

Author : William H. Sewell Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226749193
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Logics of History written by William H. Sewell Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to history. Logics of History argues that both history and the social sciences have something crucial to offer each other. While historians do not think of themselves as theorists, they know something social scientists do not: how to think about the temporalities of social life. On the other hand, while social scientists’ treatments of temporality are usually clumsy, their theoretical sophistication and penchant for structural accounts of social life could offer much to historians. Renowned for his work at the crossroads of history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, Sewell argues that only by combining a more sophisticated understanding of historical time with a concern for larger theoretical questions can a satisfying social theory emerge. In Logics of History, he reveals the shape such an engagement could take, some of the topics it could illuminate, and how it might affect both sides of the disciplinary divide.

The Logic of History

Author : C. Behan McCullagh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134592949
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of History written by C. Behan McCullagh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Logic of History defends the practice of history as more reliable than has recently been acknowledged, arguing that historians make their accounts as fair as they can and avoid misleading their readers.

The Logic of the History of Ideas

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521016841
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of the History of Ideas written by Mark Bevir and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human cultures generate meanings, and the history of ideas, broadly conceived, is the study of these meanings. An adequate theory of culture must therefore rest on a suitable philosophical enquiry into the nature of the history of ideas. Mark Bevir's book explores the forms of reasoning appropriate to the history of ideas, enhancing our understanding by grappling with central questions such as: What is a meaning? What constitutes objective knowledge of the past? What are beliefs and traditions? How can we explain why people held the beliefs they did? The book ranges widely over issues and theorists associated with post-analytic philosophy, post-modernism, hermeneutics, literary theory, political thought, and social theory.

Historian's Fallacie

Author : David H. Fischer
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061315451
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Historian's Fallacie written by David H. Fischer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1970-12-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer. His book must be read three times: the first in anger, the srcond in laughter, the third in respect....The wisdom is expressed with a certin ruthlessness. Scarcly a major historian escapes unscathed. Ten thousand members of the AmericanHistorical Association will rush to the index and breathe a little easier to find their names absent.

Historical Explanation Reconsidered

Author : Gordon Graham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Historical Explanation Reconsidered written by Gordon Graham and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Logic of Social Science

Author : James Mahoney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691214956
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Social Science written by James Mahoney and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mahoney's starting point is the problem of essentialism in social science. Essentialism--the belief that the members of a category possess hidden properties ("essences") that make them members of the category and that endow them with a certain nature--is appropriate for scientific categories ("atoms", for instance) but not for human ones ("revolutions," for instance). Despite this, much social science research takes place from within an essentialist orientation; those who reject this assumption goes so far in the other direction as to reject the idea of an external reality, independent of human beings, altogether. Mahoney proposes an alternative approach that aspires to bridge this enduring rift in the social sciences between those who take a scientific approach and assume that social science categories correspond to external reality (and thus believe that the methods used in the natural sciences are generally appropriate for the social sciences) and those who take a constructivist approach and believe that because the categories used to understand the social world are humanly-constructed, they cannot possibly follow the science of the natural world. As the name suggests, scientific constructivism brings in aspects of both views and attempts to unite them. Drawing from cognitive science, it focuses on using the rational parts of our brain machinery to overcome the limitations and deeply seated biases (such as essentialism) of our evolved minds. Specifically, Mahoney puts forth a "set-theoretic analysis" that focuses on "sets" of categories as they exist in the mind that are also subject to the mathematical logic of set-theory. He spends the first four chapters of the book establishing the foundations and methods for set-theoretic analysis, the next four chapters looking and how this analysis fits with the existing tools of social science, and the final four chapters focusing on how this approach can be used to study and understand cases"--

The Logic of History

Author : C. Behan McCullagh
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415223980
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of History written by C. Behan McCullagh and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Logic of History defends the practice of history as more reliable than has recently been acknowledged, arguing that historians make their accounts as fair as they can and avoid misleading their readers.

Historical Dictionary of Ethics

Author : Harry J. Gensler
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810862719
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Ethics written by Harry J. Gensler and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of Ethics covers a very broad range of ethical topics, including ethical theories, historical periods, historical figures, applied ethics, ethical issues, ethical concepts, non-Western approaches, and related disciplines. Harry J. Gensler and Earl W. Spurgin tackle such issues as abortion, capital punishment, stemcell research, and terrorism while also explaining key theories like utilitarianism, natural law, social contract, and virtue ethics. This reference provides a complete overview of ethics through a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries, including bioethics, business ethics, Aristotle, Hobbes, autonomy, confidentiality, Confucius, and psychology.

Jesus and the Logic of History

Author : Paul W. Barnett
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830871241
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Jesus and the Logic of History written by Paul W. Barnett and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2001-05-29 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Historian Paul W. Barnett presents clear, careful and convincing evidence that the Christ of orthodox Christianity is the same as the Jesus of history.

Fuzzy Logic and Mathematics

Author : Radim Bělohlávek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190200014
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Fuzzy Logic and Mathematics written by Radim Bělohlávek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main part of the book is a comprehensive overview of the development of fuzzy logic and its applications in various areas of human affair since its genesis in the mid 1960s. This overview is then employed for assessing the significance of fuzzy logic and mathematics based on fuzzy logic.

Mathematics and Logic in History and in Contemporary Thought

Author : Ettore Carruccio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351506617
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis Mathematics and Logic in History and in Contemporary Thought by : Ettore Carruccio

Download or read book Mathematics and Logic in History and in Contemporary Thought written by Ettore Carruccio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not a conventional history of mathematics as such, a museum of documents and scientific curiosities. Instead, it identifies this vital science with the thought of those who constructed it and in its relation to the changing cultural context in which it evolved. Particular emphasis is placed on the philosophic and logical systems, from Aristotle onward, that provide the basis for the fusion of mathematics and logic in contemporary thought.

Knowledge and Explanation in History

Author : Ronald F. Atkinson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349159654
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Explanation in History written by Ronald F. Atkinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1978-11-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Evolution of Logic

Author : W. D. Hart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139491202
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Logic written by W. D. Hart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relations between logic and philosophy over the last 150 years. Logic underwent a major renaissance beginning in the nineteenth century. Cantor almost tamed the infinite, and Frege aimed to undercut Kant by reducing mathematics to logic. These achievements were threatened by the paradoxes, like Russell's. This ferment generated excellent philosophy (and mathematics) by excellent philosophers (and mathematicians) up to World War II. This book provides a selective, critical history of the collaboration between logic and philosophy during this period. After World War II, mathematical logic became a recognized subdiscipline in mathematics departments, and consequently but unfortunately philosophers have lost touch with its monuments. This book aims to make four of them (consistency and independence of the continuum hypothesis, Post's problem, and Morley's theorem) more accessible to philosophers, making available the tools necessary for modern scholars of philosophy to renew a productive dialogue between logic and philosophy.

Logic, Language, and Meaning, Volume 1

Author : L. T. F. Gamut
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226280844
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Logic, Language, and Meaning, Volume 1 written by L. T. F. Gamut and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the two volumes of Logic, Language, and Meaning can be used independently of one another, together they provide a comprehensive overview of modern logic as it is used as a tool in the analysis of natural language. Both volumes provide exercises and their solutions. Volume 1, Introduction to Logic, begins with a historical overview and then offers a thorough introduction to standard propositional and first-order predicate logic. It provides both a syntactic and a semantic approach to inference and validity, and discusses their relationship. Although language and meaning receive special attention, this introduction is also accessible to those with a more general interest in logic. In addition, the volume contains a survey of such topics as definite descriptions, restricted quantification, second-order logic, and many-valued logic. The pragmatic approach to non-truthconditional and conventional implicatures are also discussed. Finally, the relation between logic and formal syntax is treated, and the notions of rewrite rule, automation, grammatical complexity, and language hierarchy are explained.

The Logic of Information

Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192570277
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Information written by Luciano Floridi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, to be understood as constraining affordances, and we transform them into information, like semantic engines. Such transformation or repurposing is not equivalent to portraying, or picturing, or photographing, or photocopying anything. It is more like cooking: the dish does not represent the ingredients, it uses them to make something else out of them, yet the reality of the dish and its properties hugely depend on the reality and the properties of the ingredients. Models are not representations understood as pictures, but interpretations understood as data elaborations, of systems. Thus, he articulates and defends the thesis that knowledge is design and philosophy is the ultimate form of conceptual design. Although entirely independent of Floridi's previous books, The Philosophy of Information (OUP 2011) and The Ethics of Information (OUP 2013), The Logic of Information both complements the existing volumes and presents new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.