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  1. 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 ...

  2. Aug 21, 2007 · R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) was primarily a philosopher of history, a metaphysican and archaeologist, and considered his work in aesthetics—the principal work being his The Principles of Art (1938)—as secondary (for more about his general philosophy, see the entry on Robin George Collingwood). But the work in aesthetics has enjoyed a ...

  3. R. G. CollingwoodIdea of History. Robin George Collingwood, or R. G. Collingwood as he is more usually known, was Waynefleet Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford University from 1935 to 1941. During his career Collingwood attempted to integrate and understand human experience and knowledge, and to bring together history and philosophy.

  4. In Collingwood’s view philosophy is related to the particular problems a specific age is confronted with. The Greeks were especially concerned about the problems of mathematics, and accordingly their philosophy was in search of their foundations; the Middle Ages were concerned with theology and reflected on the relations between God and man; in the modern age, from the sixteenth to the ...

    • Jan van der Dussen
    • 2016
  5. Jan 18, 2019 · Collingwood approves of the identity of philosophy and history, but he is careful to say that this cannot be a simple empirical identity or one based solely on the existence of common characteristics: identity is a dynamic conception; philosophy and history are united in every real act of thinking: “Each without the other is a lifeless corpse: every piece of real thinking is both at once.

    • James Connelly
    • j.connelly@hull.ac.uk
    • 2018
  6. R. G. Collingwood's The Idea of History (Clarendon. Press, 1946) "is an essay in the philosophy of history." Philos. ophy of history, as Collingwood understood it, is of very recent. origin. It emerged as a sequel to the rise of "scientific history" which took place in the latter part of the nineteenth century. (254).

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  8. Jan 18, 2019 · If Collingwood’s philosophy of history were merely one branch of his descriptive metaphysics, then there would be no reason for giving any special status to history in comparison with, say, art or natural science. Still, it is a fact that Collingwood does give a special status to history.

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