Can There Be a Credible Philosophy of History?

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Davit MOSINYAN Department of Philosophy and Logic named after academician Georg Brutian at Khachatur Abovian ASPU

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v9i2.188

Keywords:

history, historiography, historical research, historical text, philosophy of history, credibility, metahistory, discipline

Abstract

A lot of different historical issues were discussed during many centuries. As a result, the philosophy of history was established as an independent academic discipline. However, nowadays there are so many philosophies of history that we have to ask ourselves where this development leads us to, and whether they have anything positive to give to science. The question is as follows: “Can there be a credible philosophy of history?”. Nevertheless, we still need to find out the significance of its credibility. To perform this task, we need to examine the very concept of the philosophy of history and to study the history of the philosophy of history.

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Author Biography

Davit MOSINYAN, Department of Philosophy and Logic named after academician Georg Brutian at Khachatur Abovian ASPU

Davit MOSINYAN (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Logic named after academician Georg Brutian at Khachatur Abovian ASPU, Yerevan, Armenia. His areas of interest include philosophy of history, philosophy of culture, epistemology, and semiotics of cinema. He is author of 3 monographs, 1 textbook and more than 20 scientific articles. Recent publications are: “Perspectives of Thinking of Egern: from Prehistory to History”, “The Philosophy of War: Thoughts on the «Four Day War»”, “Hayden White's Idea of Metahistory in the Context of Linguistic Turn”, “Language and Experience in the Post-Genocide Society”.

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Published

2017-12-25

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MOSINYAN, D. (2017). Can There Be a Credible Philosophy of History?. WISDOM, 9(2), 43–47. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v9i2.188

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2017): 2-2017

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