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Postnarrativist philosophy of historiography
From Analytic Philosophy of History to Narrativism
Early narrativists
Narrativism
Reading Hayden White and Frank Ankersmit
Three Tenets of Narrativist Philosophy of Historiography
Representationalism
Constructivism
Holism
Representationalism and Non-representationalism
Art or science?
The problems of representationalism
Towards non-representationalism
Reasoning in Historiography
Narrative skepticism and narrative essentialism
Historiographical theses
Meaning in historiography
Evidence, reasoning and argumentative structure
Reasoning in Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class
Reasoning in Christopher Clark's Sleepwalkers
Conclusion
Colligation
Colligatory concepts in the philosophy of historiography
W. H. Walsh on colligatory concepts
Two examples: The 'Thaw' and 'Christian Expansion'
Reference and colligation
Colligatory classification
Conclusion
Underdetermination and Epistemic Values
Empirical vindication?
The justificatory role of epistemic values
Epistemic values
Conclusion
From Truth to Warranted Assertion
The correspondence theory of truth and truth-makers
Epistemic authority and truth
Pragmatism and the meaning of truth
Warranted assertion
Conclusion
The Tri-partite Theory of Justification of Historiography
Postmodernism
Three dimensions of evaluation
Quentin Skinner's theory of speech acts
The argumentative context of the Great War
Conclusion: justification in historiography
Historiography between Objectivism and Subjectivism
The concept of objectivity
The object-side and the subject-side
Semantics of the 'real'
Constructivism re-considered
Rationality and transcendence
Situated universal rationality
Conclusion
Coda: Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography
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