The Reality Effect: On Adam Timmins’ Towards a Realist Philosophy of History

IF 0.4 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Journal of the Philosophy of History Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI:10.1163/18722636-12341530
Georg Gangl
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In Towards a Realist Philosophy of History, Adam Timmins sets out to develop a non-naïve form of realism that can account for the majority of the practices and products of historiography. In particular, he claims that we should be realists about facts, colligations, and narrative. While being sympathetic to some form of realism about all of these, this review essay critically discusses both Timmins’ actual arguments for historiographic realism and the approach that should be taken to the philosophical issue itself. The wider argument is that realism in historiography is a question of justification and that we therefore must turn to the empirical analysis of actual historiographic texts and debates to make any real headway on this issue.

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现实效应论亚当-蒂明斯的《走向现实主义历史哲学
在《迈向现实主义的历史哲学》一书中,亚当-蒂明斯致力于发展一种非天真形式的现实主义,这种现实主义可以解释历史学的大部分实践和产品。他特别指出,我们应该对事实、勾连和叙事持现实主义态度。这篇评论文章同情关于所有这些问题的某种形式的现实主义,但同时也批判性地讨论了蒂明斯关于历史学现实主义的实际论点,以及对哲学问题本身应采取的方法。更广泛的论点是,历史学中的现实主义是一个理由问题,因此我们必须转向对实际历史学文本和辩论的实证分析,才能在这一问题上取得真正的进展。
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期刊介绍: Philosophy of history is a rapidly expanding area. There is growing interest today in: what constitutes knowledge of the past, the ontology of past events, the relationship of language to the past, and the nature of representations of the past. These interests are distinct from – although connected with – contemporary epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and aesthetics. Hence we need a distinct venue in which philosophers can explore these issues. Journal of the Philosophy of History provides such a venue. Ever since neo-Kantianism, philosophy of history has been central to all of philosophy, whether or not particular philosophers recognized its potential significance.
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