Patrick Gardiner and the Many Meanings of Explanation

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Patrick Gardiner and the Many Meanings of Explanation

Sunday 17 March 2024 is the 102nd anniversary of the birth of Patrick Gardiner (17 March 1922 – 24 June 1997), who was born in Chelsea, London, on this date in 1922.

Gardiner was the editor of two influential collections of readings, the Oxford Readings in Philosophy volume on philosophy of history, and Theories of History: Readings from Classical and Contemporary Sources, and a book-length study on historical explanation. His work provides a meticulous analysis of explanation, recognizing many different forms of explanation, and the presuppositions of these various forms of explanation, he argued, have given us philosophies of history as diverse of Marx’s materialism and Collingwood’s idealism.

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