The Exemplifying Past: A Philosophy of History
Amsterdam University Press, 2018
Cloth: 978-94-6298-661-9 | eISBN: 978-90-485-3789-1
Library of Congress Classification D16.8.A59 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 900
Cloth: 978-94-6298-661-9 | eISBN: 978-90-485-3789-1
Library of Congress Classification D16.8.A59 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 900
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This book addresses a wide range of philosophical problems about history and the semantics of time. The point of departure is the distinction between events under the description of past witnesses and their contemporaries and events under the description of historians. Its main claim is that a thesis on the past is exemplified rather than being justified by the available evidence. Such thesis, the book argues, retroactively becomes concrete in the past under consideration. This book will not only appeal to philosophers and historians, but to students and scholars across the humanities.
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