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Journal of the Philosophy of History Volume 11 Issue 1

Subject Areas: History;
Publisher: Brill - Brill
ISSN: 1872-261X
SJR: 12

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Forum Debate on Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen’s Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography

Ankersmit, Frank

2017 Journal of the Philosophy of History

doi:10.1163/18722636-12341360

Is narrativism dead or still alive? Have all questions occasioned by the historical text been answered, so that philosophers of history must now turn to other problems? Or did narrativist philosophy of history have its blind spots that now demand their scrutiny? And if the historical text still...
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How to Cure Narrativism with Rational Evaluation

Zeleňák, Eugen

2017 Journal of the Philosophy of History

doi:10.1163/18722636-12341358

Over the past years, narrativism has ceased to be the dominant research program in the philosophy of history and several authors have started to develop new research agendas. In his recent book, Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen presents an original postnarrativist philosophy of history as an attempt to...
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A Dialogue with Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen

Ankersmit, Frank

2017 Journal of the Philosophy of History

doi:10.1163/18722636-12341357

The discussion of Kuukkanen’s book Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography (2015) is presented here in the form of a dialogue. The dialogue addresses the following five issues: 1) the kind of claims typically made in- and by the historical text, 2) narrativism and historical representation,...
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Leibniz and the Philosophical Criticism of Historiography

Fairbrother, Daniel

2017 Journal of the Philosophy of History

doi:10.1163/18722636-12341366

I begin here by discussing the role of Leibniz in historical thought, particularly in Frank Ankersmit’s representationalist philosophy of historiography. I then discuss Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen’s recent criticism of Ankersmit’s commitment to holism about the semantics of historiography. I argue that...
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Moving Deeper into Rational Pragmatism

Kuukkanen, Jouni-Matti

2017 Journal of the Philosophy of History

doi:10.1163/18722636-12341362

This essay is a response to four reviewers of my book Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography and to one detailed assessment of holism as studied in the book. I will focus on the following themes discussed by the reviewers: the debt to narrativism, representation and aboutness, truth,...

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