Hutt John Dewey and the Ethics of Historical Belief

Religion and the Representation of the Past
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4570-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Uses the thought of John Dewey to address the ethics of historical belief within religious and critical historiographical traditions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutt, Curtis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Historical Introduction: Providing Reliable Witness to the Past: The New Troubled Relationship between Historians and Believers

Testes Veritatis: An Old Debate
Testes Veritatis: New Developments
The Ethics of Historical Belief: Religion and the Representation of the Past

1. The Ethics of Finding and Making the Past

Discovering the Past: The Epistemological Ethics of Scientific Historiography
Creating the Past: The Ethics of the Interpretation of the Past
Summary: Ranke and H. White

2. Dewey and the Ethics of Historical Belief

Dewey on the Justification of Historical Belief
Dewey’s Critique of Finding and Making the Past
Dewey’s Alternative Approach to the Ethics of Historical Belief

3. The Two Faces of Deweyan Pragmatism

Pragmatism without Method?
Richard Rorty on the Ethics of Historical Belief
Richard Bernstein on the Ethics of Historical Belief
Dewey on Interpretation and Inquiry

4. Justification, Entitlement, and Tradition: Debate After Dewey

From Van Harvey to the New Traditionalism
The Historian and the Believer: The Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief
Justification, Entitlement, and Tradition

5. Dewey and the Ethics of Historical Belief

Representing the Past

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Curtis Hutt is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.