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    The Futures of the Philosophy of History: An Introduction.Georg Gangl & Ilkka Lähteenmäki - 2023 - Journal of the Philosophy of History 17 (2):177-194.
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    The Reality Effect: On Adam Timmins’ Towards a Realist Philosophy of History.Georg Gangl - 2024 - Journal of the Philosophy of History 18 (2):235-248.
    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 and the approach that should be taken to the philosophical issue itself. (...)
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  3. Narrative Explanations: The Case for Causality.Georg Gangl - 2021 - Journal of the Philosophy of History 15 (2):157-181.
    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, causal explanation is not the only way historiography relates to the past. Arthur Danto (...)
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