Gunnar Schumann

Broschiertes Buch

Historical Explanation

An Anti-Causalist Approach

Beschreibung

This book is concerned with the appropriate form of explanations in historiography and the social sciences. It combines action theory and philosophy of historiography and develops a theory of teleological explanations of human actions based on late-Wittgensteinian and Ordinary Language Philosophy insights.

Autor

Gunnar Schumann is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany. He studied Philosophy, History of Art and Political Science. PhD in Philosophy 2012. He is the editor of Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography: Causal and Teleological Approaches (Routledge, 2019).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781032586557
• ISBN-10: 1032586559
• Artikelnr.: 73495646

Rezensionen

"Historical Explanation: An Anti-Causalist Approach offers a forceful, thorough and convincing defence of a non-causalist account of action explanation, especially of explanations in historiography. The way Schumann applies insights from the analysis of the concepts of action and reason to various cases of historical explanation is original, perceptive and illuminating."

Severin Schroeder, University of Reading, UK

"This is an impressive piece of work, which provides a timely reminder of things forgotten. It is underpinned by years of research and makes a substantive contribution to the literature at the intersection of philosophy of history and philosophy of action."

Giuseppina D'Oro, Keele University, UK

"Historical Explanation: An Anti-Causalist Approach offers a forceful, thorough and convincing defence of a non-causalist account of action explanation, especially of explanations in historiography. The way Schumann applies insights from the analysis of the concepts of action and reason to various cases of historical explanation is original, perceptive and illuminating."

Severin Schroeder, University of Reading, UK

"This is an impressive piece of work, which provides a timely reminder of things forgotten. It is underpinned by years of research and makes a substantive contribution to the literature at the intersection of philosophy of history and philosophy of action."

Giuseppina D'Oro, Keele University, UK