Georg Gangl
Biographic Data
| ID | 1689413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georg Gangl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georg |
| FAMILY NAME | Gangl |
| SIGNATURE | GANGL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Reality Effect
In Towards a Realist Philosophy of History , Adam Timmins sets out to develop a non-naïve form of realism that can account for the majority of the practices and products of historiography. In particular, he claims that we should be realists about facts, colligations, and narrative. While being sympathetic to some form of realism about all of these, this review essay critically discusses both Timmins’ actual arguments for historiographic realism a…
The Futures of the Philosophy of History
2022 at the University of Oulu, Finland.(Along with the editors of this issue, the workshop was organized by Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen and Kalle Pihlainen.)For the event, we invited nine young scholars, academically speaking, to reflect on the future of the philosophy of history, and seven of their contributions are included in revised form in this theme issue.1In our original introduction text for the workshop, we wrote that the philosophy of histor…
The Essential Tension
In this article, I scrutinize knowledge as it operates in historiography. Historians find themselves in a peculiar position: they need to employ the tools available to them in their present in order to say true things about a past that might have been very different. I argue that our knowledge of the past is best understood through an informational account of knowledge and a coherentist account of justification. In this framework, knowledge claim…
Narrative Explanations
In this paper I argue that historiography employs causal narrative explanations just as other historical sciences such as evolutionary biology or paleontology do. There is a logic of explanation common to all these sciences that centers on causal explanation of unique and unrepeatable events. The explanandum of historiography can further be understood as mechanism in the sense developed by Stuart Glennan and others in recent years. However, causa…
The Futures of the Philosophy of History
2022 at the University of Oulu, Finland.(Along with the editors of this issue, the workshop was organized by Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen and Kalle Pihlainen.)For the event, we invited nine young scholars, academically speaking, to reflect on the future of the philosophy of history, and seven of their contributions are included in revised form in this theme issue.1In our original introduction text for the workshop, we wrote that the philosophy of histor…
The Essential Tension
In this article, I scrutinize knowledge as it operates in historiography. Historians find themselves in a peculiar position: they need to employ the tools available to them in their present in order to say true things about a past that might have been very different. I argue that our knowledge of the past is best understood through an informational account of knowledge and a coherentist account of justification. In this framework, knowledge claim…
Narrative Explanations
In this paper I argue that historiography employs causal narrative explanations just as other historical sciences such as evolutionary biology or paleontology do. There is a logic of explanation common to all these sciences that centers on causal explanation of unique and unrepeatable events. The explanandum of historiography can further be understood as mechanism in the sense developed by Stuart Glennan and others in recent years. However, causa…
Narrative Explanations
In this paper I argue that historiography employs causal narrative explanations just as other historical sciences such as evolutionary biology or paleontology do. There is a logic of explanation common to all these sciences that centers on causal explanation of unique and unrepeatable events. The explanandum of historiography can further be understood as mechanism in the sense developed by Stuart Glennan and others in recent years. However, causa…
The Essential Tension
In this article, I scrutinize knowledge as it operates in historiography. Historians find themselves in a peculiar position: they need to employ the tools available to them in their present in order to say true things about a past that might have been very different. I argue that our knowledge of the past is best understood through an informational account of knowledge and a coherentist account of justification. In this framework, knowledge claim…
The Futures of the Philosophy of History
2022 at the University of Oulu, Finland.(Along with the editors of this issue, the workshop was organized by Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen and Kalle Pihlainen.)For the event, we invited nine young scholars, academically speaking, to reflect on the future of the philosophy of history, and seven of their contributions are included in revised form in this theme issue.1In our original introduction text for the workshop, we wrote that the philosophy of histor…
The Reality Effect
In Towards a Realist Philosophy of History , Adam Timmins sets out to develop a non-naïve form of realism that can account for the majority of the practices and products of historiography. In particular, he claims that we should be realists about facts, colligations, and narrative. While being sympathetic to some form of realism about all of these, this review essay critically discusses both Timmins’ actual arguments for historiographic realism a…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Historiography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)