Gunnar Schumann

Historical Explanation (eBook, PDF)

An Anti-Causalist Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000997934
• Artikelnr.: 69058761

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 1.1 Overview of the book 1.2 Causalism and anti-causalism
in the theory of action and the philosophy of historiography 1.3 Historical
overview 1.4 On the conceptual method of this book 2. The Subject Matter of
Historiography and the Concepts of Explanation and Causation 2.1 On the
subject matter of historiography 2.2 On the concept of explanation 2.3
Excursus: On the concept of causation 3. Action Theory 3.1 What are
actions? 3.2 On explaining actions 4. Historical Explanations 4.1
Historical explanations as reason explanations 4.2 Problems of the
application of intentional explanations to historiographical subjects 4.3
On collective actions 4.4 Conclusions