1st Edition
Philosophy as Cultural Self-Understanding Peter Winch, R. G. Collingwood and the Human Sciences
1. Introduction: Philosophy and the Perspective of Meaning
2. “An Entire Philosophy from a Historical Point of View”: The Metaphilosophy of Collingwood’s Philosophy of History
3. The Autonomy of the Social Sciences
4. Winch and Collingwood on Logic: “Aristotelian” and “Socratic” Thinking
5. Moore’s Hands: Collingwood, Wittgenstein and Realism
6. Addressing “Man’s Relation to Reality”
7. Language Games and Relativism
Biography
Olli Lagerspetz is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His research interests include Wittgenstein and the philosophy of the human sciences. His most recent books are A Philosophy of Dirt (2018), Trust, Ethics and Human Reason (2015) and, with Kirsti Suolinna, Edward Westermarck: Intellectual Networks, Philosophy and Social Anthropology (2014).
Jonas Ahlskog is University Lecturer in History at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He specialises in the philosophy and theory of history. He is the author of the books The Primacy of Method in Historical Research: Philosophy of History and the Perspective of Meaning (2021) and Testimony and Historical Knowledge: Authority, Evidence and Ethics in Historiography (2025).
