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Jan 11, 2006 · Collingwood thus occupies a distinctive position in the history of British philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century. He rejects equally the neo-empiricist assumptions that prevailed in early analytic philosophy and the kind of metaphysics that the analytical school sought to overthrow.
- Collingwood's Aesthetics
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) was primarily a philosopher of...
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- Collingwood's Aesthetics
The most notable difference between the German conception of history and Collingwood’s, however, is that Collingwood without hesitation, and even emphatically, considered history a science and not part of a separate Geisteswissenschaften or Kulturwissenschaften.
- Jan van der Dussen
- 2016
Let us put this by saying that in scissors-and-paste history, if we allow ourselves to describe testimony—loosely, I admit—by the name of evidence, there is potential evidence and there is actual evidence.
Is it possible to study the history of what was just now called unconscious thinking, or must the thinking which history studies be conscious or reflective thinking? This amounts to asking whether there can be a history of memory or perception.
During his career Collingwood attempted to integrate and understand human experience and knowledge, and to bring together history and philosophy. He considered that worthwhile historical studies must take on board, as a key aspect of their proper function, the goal of self-knowledge of the mind.
Collingwood's theory of history is variously stated in his works, and it is not always clear whether what he has written in one place is compatible with what he has written in others.
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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 ...
