Truth, Time and History: A Philosophical Inquiry

Truth,Time and History challenges the conventional separation of arguments about the past, arguing that only the present exists and proposing a novel proposal to uphold the legitimacy of discourse about the past. It highlights the role of historians in creating and constructing temporality.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 04 April 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Truth,Time and History is a groundbreaking work that explores the reality of the past by connecting arguments across areas that are typically discussed in isolation. It challenges the impasse between Dummett's semantic anti-realists and the truth value link realists regarding the existence of the past independent of our verification methods. Through an examination of the puzzles concerning identity over time, the book argues that only the present exists. Drawing on Lewis' analogy between times and possible worlds, the work of Collingwood and Oakeshott, and the continental philosopher Barthes, the author proposes a novel proposal for combining aspects of ersatz presentism with historical coherentism to uphold the legitimacy of discourse about the past. By highlighting the role of historians in the creation and construction of temporality, Truth,Time and History provides a compelling philosophical argument for the inherence of an unreal past in the real present.

Weight: 452g
Dimension: 158 x 234 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350105263