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1. • • 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.
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     R. G. Collingwood Idea of History - Age-of-the-Sage

2. link.springer.com › chapter › 10Introduction to Collingwood’s Philosophy of History - Springer

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   Though the two doctrines mentioned are an essential element of Collingwood’s view of history, his main interest was focused on comprehensive issues related to the study of history.

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3. plato.stanford.edu › entries › collingwoodRobin George Collingwood - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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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.

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   Collingwood was not just a philosopher of history but also a practising historian and archaeologist. He was, during his time, a leading authority on Roman Britain : he spent his term time at Oxford teaching philosophy but devoted his long vacations to archaeology.

5. www.britannica.com › biography › R-G-CollingwoodR.G. Collingwood | Philosophy of History, Idealism ...

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   philosophy of history. R.G. Collingwood (born February 22, 1889, Cartmel Fell, Lancashire, England—died January 9, 1943, Coniston, Lancashire) was an English historian and philosopher whose work provided a major 20th-century attempt to reconcile philosophy and history.

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6. www.jstor.org › stable › 2216345Collingwood's Theory of History

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   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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   When did John Collingwood write the idea of history?

   • His major work, The Idea of History, was published posthumously in 1946. In the introduction to The Idea of History Collingwood attempted to define a "philosophy of history" and discussed the nature, object, method and value of history.

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   What is Collingwood's philosophy of history?

   • The philosophy of history as conceived by Collingwood should therefore be seen as a reflection on the way historians think when studying the past. Collingwood used to emphasize that the study of history is of a special nature, since it deals with the past, that is, a vanished and therefore non-existing reality.

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   What was Collingwood's view of history?

   • Collingwood saw the scientific study of history as the outcome of an historical process, beginning with the ancient Greeks. It is extensively described by him in the first four parts of The Idea of History, from Greco-Roman historiography to scientific history (IH, 14–204).

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   What was Collingwood's essay about?

   • The Essay was a sustained investigation of the nature of philosophical reasoning through an examination of the distinctive character of philosophical concepts. Following publication of the Essay, Collingwood focused his philosophical energies on the philosophy of history and the philosophy of nature.

   Robin George Collingwood - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Why is Collingwood important?

   • Primarily through the interpretative efforts of W. H. Dray, Collingwood’s work in the philosophy of history came to be seen as providing a powerful antidote against Carl Hempel’s claim for methodological unity.

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   What does Collingwood say about human actions?

   • For in his later writings Collingwood emphasizes that human actions are the object of history. In The Idea of History, for instance, it is stated, in answer to the question what the object of history is, ‘that history is the science of res gestae, the attempt to answer questions about human actions done in the past’ (IH, 9).

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8. plato.stanford.edu › entries › historyPhilosophy of History - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Feb 18, 2007 · Although not himself falling within the continental lineage, R. G. Collingwood’s philosophy of history falls within the general framework of hermeneutic philosophy of history (1946). Collingwood focuses on the question of how to specify the content of history.