Routledge Historical Judgement - Routledge Philosophy of History Book

Explore the complex relationship between historical practice and theory in Historical Judgement: The Limits of Historiographical Choice. Published by Routledge, this work addresses a significant gap in the historical profession, where practitioners often avoid examining their own methodologies and theoretical foundations. Author Jonathan Gorman proposes a new way to understand the discipline. Instead of looking at history from the outside, he argues that to truly characterize historiography, we must look through the eyes of the historians themselves. By modeling the discipline based on the views of its actual practitioners, Gorman provides a fresh perspective on how historical knowledge is constructed. To build this framework, the book draws comparisons to recent developments in the philosophy of law and the philosophy of science. This approach helps identify the different models at work within the field. This book is an essential read for students, academics, and anyone interested in the ethics and methodology of how we interpret the past.