Zapraszamy na wykład Georga Gangla (Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography, University of Ostrava) pt. “Insight and Hindsight: Historiographic Perspective Between Past and Present.”, czwartek, 6 marca, godz. 17:00, Instytut Historii UJ.
Zapraszamy na wykład Georga Gangla (Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography, University of Ostrava) pt. “Insight and Hindsight: Historiographic Perspective Between Past and Present”. Wykład odbędzie się w czwartek, 6 marca o godzinie 17:00, w sali 111 (Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Collegium Witkowskiego, Gołębia 13, Kraków).
Abstract
In recent years, an intense debate has been going on in historiography and its philosophy about the aim and perspective of the discipline: Should the historian aim to describe the past in the way historical actors experienced it, i.e. should they try to gain insight into their actions and the reasons for their acting? Or should they make full use of their perspective in the future of the past, using hindsight to describe it in ways the historical actors could never have? Each of these positions comes with its own problems: Historiographic insight is faced with questions about the epistemic possibility of “entering” into the heads of past actors, and historiographic hindsight is confronted with questions about the legitimacy of anachronistic and presentist (re-)descriptions of the past.
Bio
Georg Gangl is a philosopher of historiography with a special interest in questions of evidence, narrative, and hindsight. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography of the University of Ostrava, Czechia. He has published on his main interests in the leading journals of the field and is currently working on a book on historiographic hindsight. For more information on Georg’s work, please see: https://philpeople.org/profiles/georg-gangl.
