Historical Judgement
by J Gorman (9781844651108)

Historical Judgement (Book)

J Gorman
Release Date: January 2008
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781844651108
ISBN-10: 184465110X

Jonathan Gorman advances current philosophy of historiography by analysing the nature of historical judgement, factual and moral, thereby addressing the core modern and postmodern problems of historical understanding and the ethics of the writing of history. Many historians are averse to historical theory, but this book argues for a historiography-friendly philosophical response, one that shows how to model historiography in a philosophical way by analysing the metaphilosophical and historiographical moves made in the philosophy of other disciplines. Gorman explores that which historians conceive as characterizing their discipline, in particular their views about truth-telling, synthesis of facts, moral judgement and their conceptions of the history of historiography. In parallel, Gorman presents the ideas of philosophers who have thought about history. In bringing the ideas of historians and philosophers together, Gorman provides one of the most important new statements in the philosophy of history to be written in recent years.

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