00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861248968 Buklod 20231115111659.0 i|||||||||||||| | ta 161124s2007 ilu rb |||1 u|eng d 0226518302 (paper) 9780226518305 (paper) (iLib)UPBAG-00000013077 DLC BAG rda eng D 16.9 M33 Megill, Allan author. Historical knowledge, historical error a contemporary guide to practice Allan Megill ; with contributions by Steven Shepard and Phillip Honenberger. Chicago The University of Chicago Press ©2007. xvi, 288 pages 23 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-267) and index. Part I: Memory -- History with memory, history without memory -- Memory versus history -- History and the present -- Conflicting attitudes toward the past -- History's legitimate roles -- History, memory, identity -- Identity and the memory wave -- Identity, memory, and historical understanding -- History, memory, and the unknown. Part II: Narrative & knowledge -- Does narrative have a cognitive value of its own? -- The crisis of narrative -- The epistemological limits of narrative -- Narrative and the four tasks of history-writing -- Explanation and description -- Narrative and Braudel's mediterranean -- The four tasks of history-writing. Part III: Objectivity & speculation -- Objectivity for historians -- Objectivity and commitment -- Defining objectivity -- A case study in historical epistemology: what did the neighbors know Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings? / by Steven Shepard, Philip Honenberger, and Allan Megill -- A disputed Case -- Interference to the best explanation -- Thagard's three criteria -- a fourth criterion -- Inferring the relationship -- The case for our alternative account -- Counterfactual history: on Niall Ferguson's virtual history ans similar work. Part IV: Fragmentation -- Fragmentation and the future of historiography: on Peter Novick's that noble dream -- Grand narrative and the discipline of history -- Four ideal-typical attitude toward the overall coherence of history -- Four postulates suggested by the preceding account -- Coherence and incoherence in historical studies: from the Annales school to m the new cultural history -- The annales school and the problem of coherence -- The annales school: from convergence to multiplicity -- Coherence as a wild commitment -- Conclusion: Against current fashion. History Philosophy. Knowledge, Theory of. History Philosophy. Knowledge, Theory of. Shepard, Steven 1978- contributor. Honenberger, Phillip contributor. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN D 16.9 M33 Book