Jump to content

HUL351

From IITD Wiki
Revision as of 10:08, 4 March 2026 by Prashantt492 (talk | contribs) (Creating course page via bot)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
HUL351
philosophy of History
Credits 3
Structure 3-0-0
Pre-requisites Any Two courses from HUL2XX category
Overlaps

HUL351 : philosophy of History

[edit]

Allocation Preferences : HUL251, HUL258, HUL253, HUL256 What kind of understanding of the past does history provide? Is it speculative or analytical? What constitutes historical evidence and how does it confine historical understanding? Questions of objectivity are the central focus of this course: that of historians themselves—constructionist and objectivist— as they debate methodological issues and disagreements about the aim of their discipline, and that of philosophers whose interest in history springs from their attention on history's objectivist ideals and “the objectivity crisis” in history providing a philosophical rationale for reframing the two oppositions that dominate debates about the status of historical knowledge.