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My M.A. thesis, "Citing Silences: Finding a History 'Outside' the Archive," is available open access on PhilArchive. It argues that silences produced by Euro-Western historiography in the service of white supremacy can be cited in ways that force the archive to acknowledge its own violence — developing the concept of the "hauntological irrealis."
https://philpapers.org/rec/HENCSF
#PhilArchive #PhilPapers #philosophy #philosophyOfHistory #CriticalRaceTheory #Derrida #Trouillot #Hartman #Butler -
Next week, we'll be welcoming hundreds of historians from all over the world to Lisbon for the 5th conference of the International Network for Theory of History!
The final programme in now on our website: three keynotes, five round tables and dozens of parallel sessions.
#Histodons #Historiography #TheoryOfHistory #Historiografia #TeoriaDaHistória #INTH2024 #PhilosophyOfHistory #UsesOfThePast #FilosofiaDaHistória #UsosDoPassado
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#Hegel in Our Time, wie passend und unerwartet. Wir gehen rein.
#philosopy #Idealismus #PhilosophyOfHistory
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On the 24th of November I will be presenting my paper "Historical Knowledge and Epistemic Dependence: issues of trust and expertise" at the Centre for Philosophical Studies of History (Unicersity of Oulu).
A short abstract: Philosophers working in social epistemology and the philosophy of science increasingly recognize that we are fundamentally dependent on others for much of what we claim to know. Historical knowledge is often one of those kinds of knowledge: ordinary people depend on historians and their research to know that something past is (or was) the case. But epistemic dependence is inevitable even in highly specialized contexts, such as scientific and scholarly research. Scientists and historians depend on the work of their peers for making cutting-edge research, and they trust their peers to have done their work appropriately. ...