Who are the narrativists? Reading a paper by William Dray from 1971 made me realize once again how elastic this label is. In said text, Dray names “Gallie, White, and Danto” as “the narrativists”, with White here being Morton, not Hayden. Now, this group of thinkers is...(1/14)

Issue 1/2024 of JPH is out now! It contains articles on semantic externalism, historical aspects, figural realism, and Frege and the logic of historical propositions. Plus, there are also three book reviews: brill.com/view/journals/…. More on each individual text here below!👇

New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk 'Metaphysics of Time Lurking within Historiography: considering the (equal) existence of past, present and future' that Matias Slavov yesterday gave with the Centre here: youtube.com/watch?v=2z4pn9….

Happy watching!

It was a great talk! I'm glad I managed to attend.

We're happy to announce that we'll have another talk this month, outside of our spring seminar cycle. On April 29, Taynna Marino (University of Poznan) will be speaking on 'Empathy, Intergenerational Justice, and the Ethics of History'. Save the date & more info to follow soon!

In his “The Practice of History”, Geoffrey Elton makes the unusual argument that historiography is more objective than the experimental natural sciences. Let’s see what he meant by this and how his argument holds up from the standpoint of modern philosophy of history. (1/20)

Today in two weeks (11.04), Matias Slavov will give the talk 'Metaphysics of Time Lurking within Historiography: Considering the (equal) existence of past, present and future' with the Centre. The event will be hybrid (Tellus Brisk and Zoom). Save the date and more info soon!

Human scientists University of Oulu! Apply by April 30 for the Eudaimonia Clare Hall (Cambridge) Fellowship, which allows you to spend 6 months Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and includes room and board. More information: oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken=1….

New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk 'A Heath Robinson Contraption? Some Problems with Roth's Irrealism' that Adam Timmins gave with the Centre last week on our Youtube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=4UzBNz….

Happy watching!

Teaching both Collingwood and Hempel in the same week was a great experience, for the students (I hope) and myself (here I’m sure). There are some many interesting and telling differences between them but also perhaps unexpected commonalities. The well-known differences...(1/17)

In two weeks (21.03, 16h), Adam Timmins (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) will give the talk 'A Heath Robinson Contraption? Some Problems with Roth's Irrealism' with the Centre over Zoom. Save the date and more information to follow soon!

There is a poster now for the conference 'Analytical Philosophy of History and the Challenges of the Future' where the Centre's director Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen will give the talk 'Methodologism as Pragmatism'. For the whole programme, see below!