C Behan Mccullagh
Biographic Data
| ID | 443969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Behan Mccullagh |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Behan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccullagh |
| SIGNATURE | MCCULLAGH C B |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Historical Explanation, Theories of
The Truth of Basic Historical Descriptions
Most historians and many philosophers of history persist in believing that present evidence can warrant belief in the truth of descriptions of particular events in the past. In most of his books on historical knowledge and understanding Alun Munslow has expressed his faith in basic historical descriptions too. Recently, however, he has presented several reasons for doubting their truth. He sees all historical descriptions as nothing but literary …
Invitation to historians
By and large historians have little interest in philosophy of history. The questions that interest philosophers seem remote from their involvement with evidence of the past. And answering those questions requires a background of reading and study that few historians have undertaken. Nevertheless, when historians are challenged to justify their descriptions of the past, philosophers of history can be assistance. And when they are trying to get a c…
Language and the Truth of History
The Linguisticsof History. By Roy Harris
What Do Historians Argue About
Those who think that general historical interpretations do no more than express a personal point of view deny that arguments over their credibility can have any point. They commonly believe that historians decide upon particular facts about the past in the context of a general interpretation of those facts. Consequently they deny that there is any independent basis for judging the credibility of general interpretations of the past, and conclude t…
The Logic of History
The Logic of History reveals the rational basis for historians' descriptions, interpretations and explanations of past events. C. Behan McCullagh defends the practice of history as more reliable than has recently been acknowledged. Historians, he argues, make their accounts of the past as fair as they can and avoid misleading their readers. He explains and discusses postmodern criticisms of history, providing students and teachers of history with…
The Truth of History
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 histor…
Bias in Historical Description, Interpretation, and Explanation
Debates among historiansshow that they expect descriptions of past people and events, interpretations of historicalsubjects, and genetic explanations of historical changes to be fair and not misleading. Sometimesunfair accounts of the past are the result of historians' bias, of their preferring one accountover others because it accords with their interests. It is useful to distinguish history that ismisleading by accident from that which is the r…
The Truth of History
Journal Article The Truth of History. By C. Behan McCullagh. (New York: Routledge, 1998. viii, 327 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-415-17110-5. Paper, $24.99, ISBN 0-415-17111-3.) Get access Wilfred M. McClay Wilfred M. McClay Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 201–202, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567423 Publish…
The Shape of History
Can Our Understanding of Old Texts be Objective
Some people today would deny the possibility of achieving an objective understanding of a contemporary text, and then argue that there is even less chance of achieving such an understanding of a text from the past. Such wholesale skepticism needs to be rejected, I shall argue, as quite often objective understanding of historical texts is possible. By an objective understanding of a text I mean both one which is rationally justifiable and one whic…
How objective interests explain actions
The Unifying Themes of Historical Narratives
Theology of Atonement
The relations between symbols and what they symbolize
The Truth of Historical Narratives
In recent years several studies of historical synthesis have revealed that humblest narrative is always more than a chronological series of events.' They have pointed to a variety of ways in which historians have given their chronological accounts of the past, their basic narratives, a meaning as a whole. A narrative may illustrate a familiar kind of plot -a romance, tragedy, comedy, or satire, for instance. It may illustrate a moral truth, as pa…
Justifying Historical Descriptions
Preface 1. Introduction: truth and justification 2. Justifying singular descriptions: arguments to the best explanation 3. Justifying singular descriptions: statistical inferences 4. Justifying singular descriptions: arguments from criteria and arguments from analogy 5. Some common inferences in history 6. Historical generalizations 7. Justifying singular causal judgements in history 8. Judgements of 'the most significant cause' in history 9. Epi…
Justifying Historical Descriptions
Preface 1. Introduction: truth and justification 2. Justifying singular descriptions: arguments to the best explanation 3. Justifying singular descriptions: statistical inferences 4. Justifying singular descriptions: arguments from criteria and arguments from analogy 5. Some common inferences in history 6. Historical generalizations 7. Justifying singular causal judgements in history 8. Judgements of 'the most significant cause' in history 9. Epi…
Narrative Logic. A Semantic Analysis of the Historian's Language
Uitgangspunt is het onderscheid tussen geschiedvorsing en geschiedschrijving. De geschiedvorsing houdt zich bezig met het vaststellen van wat er precies gebeurd is, met de oorzakelijke verklaring van het gebeurde uit wat daar aan vooraf ging etc.. De geschiedschrijving poogt de resultaten van de geschiedvorsing te integreren binnen een bepaald overzicht, of totaalbeeld van een deel van het verleden. Wat de theorievorming is in de exacte wetenscha…
Historical Realism
Historical Instrumentalism
History as Applied Science
Narrative Logic. A Semantic Analysis of the Historian's Language
Uitgangspunt is het onderscheid tussen geschiedvorsing en geschiedschrijving. De geschiedvorsing houdt zich bezig met het vaststellen van wat er precies gebeurd is, met de oorzakelijke verklaring van het gebeurde uit wat daar aan vooraf ging etc.. De geschiedschrijving poogt de resultaten van de geschiedvorsing te integreren binnen een bepaald overzicht, of totaalbeeld van een deel van het verleden. Wat de theorievorming is in de exacte wetenscha…
Bias in Historical Description, Interpretation, and Explanation
Debates among historiansshow that they expect descriptions of past people and events, interpretations of historicalsubjects, and genetic explanations of historical changes to be fair and not misleading. Sometimesunfair accounts of the past are the result of historians' bias, of their preferring one accountover others because it accords with their interests. It is useful to distinguish history that ismisleading by accident from that which is the r…
What Do Historians Argue About
Those who think that general historical interpretations do no more than express a personal point of view deny that arguments over their credibility can have any point. They commonly believe that historians decide upon particular facts about the past in the context of a general interpretation of those facts. Consequently they deny that there is any independent basis for judging the credibility of general interpretations of the past, and conclude t…
The Logic of History
The Logic of History reveals the rational basis for historians' descriptions, interpretations and explanations of past events. C. Behan McCullagh defends the practice of history as more reliable than has recently been acknowledged. Historians, he argues, make their accounts of the past as fair as they can and avoid misleading their readers. He explains and discusses postmodern criticisms of history, providing students and teachers of history with…
The Truth of History
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 histor…
Can Our Understanding of Old Texts be Objective
Some people today would deny the possibility of achieving an objective understanding of a contemporary text, and then argue that there is even less chance of achieving such an understanding of a text from the past. Such wholesale skepticism needs to be rejected, I shall argue, as quite often objective understanding of historical texts is possible. By an objective understanding of a text I mean both one which is rationally justifiable and one whic…
How objective interests explain actions
The Truth of Historical Narratives
In recent years several studies of historical synthesis have revealed that humblest narrative is always more than a chronological series of events.' They have pointed to a variety of ways in which historians have given their chronological accounts of the past, their basic narratives, a meaning as a whole. A narrative may illustrate a familiar kind of plot -a romance, tragedy, comedy, or satire, for instance. It may illustrate a moral truth, as pa…
Historical Realism
Invitation to historians
By and large historians have little interest in philosophy of history. The questions that interest philosophers seem remote from their involvement with evidence of the past. And answering those questions requires a background of reading and study that few historians have undertaken. Nevertheless, when historians are challenged to justify their descriptions of the past, philosophers of history can be assistance. And when they are trying to get a c…
Historical Instrumentalism
History as Applied Science
Historical Realism
Narrative Logic. A Semantic Analysis of the Historian's Language
Uitgangspunt is het onderscheid tussen geschiedvorsing en geschiedschrijving. De geschiedvorsing houdt zich bezig met het vaststellen van wat er precies gebeurd is, met de oorzakelijke verklaring van het gebeurde uit wat daar aan vooraf ging etc.. De geschiedschrijving poogt de resultaten van de geschiedvorsing te integreren binnen een bepaald overzicht, of totaalbeeld van een deel van het verleden. Wat de theorievorming is in de exacte wetenscha…
Justifying Historical Descriptions
Preface 1. Introduction: truth and justification 2. Justifying singular descriptions: arguments to the best explanation 3. Justifying singular descriptions: statistical inferences 4. Justifying singular descriptions: arguments from criteria and arguments from analogy 5. Some common inferences in history 6. Historical generalizations 7. Justifying singular causal judgements in history 8. Judgements of 'the most significant cause' in history 9. Epi…
Justifying Historical Descriptions
Preface 1. Introduction: truth and justification 2. Justifying singular descriptions: arguments to the best explanation 3. Justifying singular descriptions: statistical inferences 4. Justifying singular descriptions: arguments from criteria and arguments from analogy 5. Some common inferences in history 6. Historical generalizations 7. Justifying singular causal judgements in history 8. Judgements of 'the most significant cause' in history 9. Epi…
The Truth of Historical Narratives
In recent years several studies of historical synthesis have revealed that humblest narrative is always more than a chronological series of events.' They have pointed to a variety of ways in which historians have given their chronological accounts of the past, their basic narratives, a meaning as a whole. A narrative may illustrate a familiar kind of plot -a romance, tragedy, comedy, or satire, for instance. It may illustrate a moral truth, as pa…
Theology of Atonement
The relations between symbols and what they symbolize
The Unifying Themes of Historical Narratives
Can Our Understanding of Old Texts be Objective
Some people today would deny the possibility of achieving an objective understanding of a contemporary text, and then argue that there is even less chance of achieving such an understanding of a text from the past. Such wholesale skepticism needs to be rejected, I shall argue, as quite often objective understanding of historical texts is possible. By an objective understanding of a text I mean both one which is rationally justifiable and one whic…
How objective interests explain actions
The Shape of History
The Truth of History
Journal Article The Truth of History. By C. Behan McCullagh. (New York: Routledge, 1998. viii, 327 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-415-17110-5. Paper, $24.99, ISBN 0-415-17111-3.) Get access Wilfred M. McClay Wilfred M. McClay Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 201–202, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567423 Publish…
Bias in Historical Description, Interpretation, and Explanation
Debates among historiansshow that they expect descriptions of past people and events, interpretations of historicalsubjects, and genetic explanations of historical changes to be fair and not misleading. Sometimesunfair accounts of the past are the result of historians' bias, of their preferring one accountover others because it accords with their interests. It is useful to distinguish history that ismisleading by accident from that which is the r…
The Truth of History
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 histor…
What Do Historians Argue About
Those who think that general historical interpretations do no more than express a personal point of view deny that arguments over their credibility can have any point. They commonly believe that historians decide upon particular facts about the past in the context of a general interpretation of those facts. Consequently they deny that there is any independent basis for judging the credibility of general interpretations of the past, and conclude t…
The Logic of History
The Logic of History reveals the rational basis for historians' descriptions, interpretations and explanations of past events. C. Behan McCullagh defends the practice of history as more reliable than has recently been acknowledged. Historians, he argues, make their accounts of the past as fair as they can and avoid misleading their readers. He explains and discusses postmodern criticisms of history, providing students and teachers of history with…
Language and the Truth of History
The Linguisticsof History. By Roy Harris
Invitation to historians
By and large historians have little interest in philosophy of history. The questions that interest philosophers seem remote from their involvement with evidence of the past. And answering those questions requires a background of reading and study that few historians have undertaken. Nevertheless, when historians are challenged to justify their descriptions of the past, philosophers of history can be assistance. And when they are trying to get a c…
Historical Explanation, Theories of
The Truth of Basic Historical Descriptions
Most historians and many philosophers of history persist in believing that present evidence can warrant belief in the truth of descriptions of particular events in the past. In most of his books on historical knowledge and understanding Alun Munslow has expressed his faith in basic historical descriptions too. Recently, however, he has presented several reasons for doubting their truth. He sees all historical descriptions as nothing but literary …
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