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Truth of History

C. Behan McCullagh
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Causal Explanations
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contrastive
Contrastive Explanations
Conventional Response
Counterfactual Force
cultural relativism debate
descriptions
descriptive
Descriptive Explanations
English Civil War
epistemology of history
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evaluating historical truth claims
explanations
Follow
Freeholders
general
Held
hindess
Historical Descriptions
historical methodology analysis
Illocutionary Force
Inclined
Lawlike Generalization
Life Style
metaphorical
Metaphorical Descriptions
Metaphorical Statement
narrative interpretation theory
objectivity in historical research
philosophy of historiography
Rational Explanations
Social Changes
Social Structures
Social Systems
statement
Summary Interpretations
Vice Versa
Violate
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415171106
  • Weight: 780g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Oct 1997
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

Modern relativism and postmodern thought in culture and language challenge the 'truth' of history. This book considers how all historians, confined by the concepts and forms of argument of their own cultures, can still discover truths about the past.
The Truth of History presents a study of various historical explanations and interpretations and evaluates their success as accounts of the past. C. Behan McCullagh contests that the variety of historical interpretations and subjectivity does not exclude the possibility of their truth. Through an examination of the constraints of history, the author argues that although historical descriptions do not mirror the past they can correlate with it in a regular and definable way.
Far from debating in the abstract and philosophical only, the author beds his argument in numerous illuminating concrete historical examples. The Truth of History explores a new position between the two extremes of believing that history perfectly represents the past and that history can tell us nothing true of the past.
About C. Behan McCullagh
C. Behan McCullagh has been a lecturer in History at Melbourne University and currently lectures in Philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia

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