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  title info:
    title: Historical explanation
    sub title: an anti-causalist approach
  name:
    name part: Schumann, Gunnar
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 345 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "This book is concerned with the appropriate form of explanations in historiography and the social sciences. It combines action theory and philosophy of historiography and develops a theory of teleological explanations of human actions based on late-Wittgensteinian and Ordinary Language Philosophy insights. In philosophy of action, many philosophers favor causal theories of human action. Additionally, in current philosophy of historiography the majority view is that historians should explain historical phenomena by their causes. This book pushes back against these mainstream views by reviving an anti-causal view of explanation of current and past human actions. The author argues that disciplines that deal with human actions require a certain form of explanation, namely a teleological or intentional explanation. This means that past human actions and their results will have to be explained by reasons of agents, not by causes. Therefore, historiography employs a method of explanation which is in stark contrast to the sciences. The author thus proposes a Verstehen (understanding) approach in historiography and the social sciences. Historical Explanation will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of action, philosophy of history, and philosophy of the social sciences"--
  table of contents: The subject matter of historiography and the concepts of explanation and causation -- Action theory -- Historical explanations.
  note: Gunnar Schumann.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Explanation
  subject:
    topic: Action theory
  subject:
    topic: Causation
  subject:
    topic: Historiographie
  subject:
    topic: Explication
  subject:
    topic: Théorie de l'action
  subject:
    topic: historiography
  subject:
    topic: Action theory
  subject:
    topic: Causation
  subject:
    topic: Explanation
  subject:
    topic: Historiography
  classification: D13 .S434 2024
  classification: 907.2/2
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    title info:
      title: Historical explanation
    name:
      name part: Schumann, Gunnar.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
    identifier: (DLC) 2023025993
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy
  identifier: 9781032586540
  identifier: 1032586540
  identifier: 9781032586557
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  identifier: 9781003450962
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  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: LBSOR
    record creation date: 230620
    record change date: 20250318220437.7
    record identifier: in00004785911
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng