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Epilegomena: 3: Historical Evidence. Introduction. ' History,' said Bury, 'is a science ; no less, and no more.'. Perhaps it is no less : that depends on what you mean by a science. There is a slang usage, like that for which ' hall' means a music-hall or 'pictures' moving pictures, according to which 'science' means natural science. Whether ...
Mar 4, 1999 · Abstract. A central motif of R. G. Collingwood's philosophy of history is the idea that historical understanding requires a re-enactment of past experience. However, there have been sharp disagreements about the acceptability of this idea, and even its meaning. This book aims to advance the critical discussion in three ways: by analysing the ...
- Peirce’s Theory of Hypothetical Inference
- Collingwood and Hypothetical Inference: The Example of The Celtic Revival
- Peirce’s Theory of Inquiry
The starting point of Peirce’s theory of abduction is the question whether there is a logic of scientific discovery. This question has become well-known, of course, because of Karl Popper’s book The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Though Popper highly valued Peirce and even called him ‘one of the greatest philosophers of all time’,Footnote 7 his app...
It is remarkable indeed how much Peirce’s notion of a hypothetical inference corresponds to the way Collingwood describes certain procedures of historical reasoning in his An Autobiography. An example is his discussion of the issue of the ‘Celtic Revival’, involving the question that after the Roman conquest the Celtic fashions had been replaced by...
With regard to Peirce, it should be noted that later in his life he changed the syllogistic form in which he initially put forward his theory of hypothetical inference into a theory in which deduction, induction and hypothesis were not conceived as being separate, but as three stages in a scientific inquiry.Footnote 20In this connection he used, ho...
- Jan van der Dussen
- 2016
Collingwood's theory of history and of its method-of what the historiar. is trying to do and the proper method of going about it-largely follows. from his conception of the nature of historical fact, which, of course, must be determined before we can decide what the subject-matter of history really. is.
About this book. Since its appearance in 1981 History as a Science has been welcomed as a coherent and comprehensive review and analysis of the many aspects of Collingwood’s philosophy of history, the development of his views, and their reception. The book was the first to pay extensive attention to Collingwood’s unpublished manuscripts ...
Sep 1, 2007 · R.G. Collingwood defined historical knowledge as essentially ‘scientific’, and saw the historian's task as the ‘re-enactment of past thoughts’. The author argues the need to go beyond Collingwood, first by demonstrating the authenticity of available evidence, and secondly, using Namier as an example, by considering methodology as well ...
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Mar 4, 1999 · Collingwood himself seems to find something like the first of these possibilities acceptable enough in natural history (IH 239); and he sometimes appears to allow a marginal role for the second even in human history. 7 Collingwood has other reasons, of course, for questioning whether human actions, including those of past agents whom historians may now be inclined to treat as authorities, fall ...
