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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 ...
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 ...
Jan 18, 2019 · In the latter part of the essay, it is argued that Collingwood’s ideas have a far-reaching metaphilosophical import to the extent that his philosophy of history is not merely about the principles of historical research. On the one hand, it is correct to describe Collingwood’s philosophy of history as an elucidation of the a priori concepts that guide history as a first-order science.
- Jonas Ahlskog
- Jonahlsk@abo.fi
- 2018
Collingwood is right, the trained historian and the working together, have it within their power to three centuries the age of philosophy as the last three have been the age of science. history. The Idea of History seeks to emancipate. the sciences and induce philosophy to accept the method.
Jan 5, 2012 · 8 The distinction is discussed by Collingwood, in the context of actual research, in Autobiography (1939), pp. 86–89. 9 The problem will be familiar to any historian who has had direct experience of jury service in an actual criminal trial, where the jurors must reach their verdict without any opportunity to ask questions directly of the accused or of the various witnesses.
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Jan 11, 2006 · R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was a British philosopher and practising archaeologist best known for his work in aesthetics and the philosophy of history. During the 1950s and 1960s his philosophy of history in particular occupied centre stage in the debate concerning the nature of explanation in the social sciences and whether or not they are ...
