The exemplifying past : a philosophy of history /
This book addresses a wide range of philosophical problems about history and the semantics of time. 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...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
[2018]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv5rf738 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Retroaction, Indeterminacy, and Seeing-in; 2 Periods and Other Minds; 3 Narrative Truth; 4 Resemblance, Substitution, Expression; 5 Exemplification; 6 Danto's End of Art; Bibliography; Index