BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260415T044329Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20250306T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20250306T190000 SUMMARY: Insight and Hindsight: Historiographic Perspective Between Past and Present UID:20260415T163726Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-x5n6c TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Gołębia 13\, Kraków\, Poland DESCRIPTION:

In recent years\, an intense debate has been going on in historiography and its philosophy about the aim and perspective of the discipline: Should the historian aim to describe the past in the way historical actors experienced it\, i.e. should they try to gain \;insight \;into their actions and the reasons for their acting? Or should they make full use of their perspective in the future of the past\, using \;hindsight \;to describe it in ways the historical actors could never have? Each of these positions comes with its own problems: Historiographic insight is faced with questions about the epistemic possibility of &ldquo\;entering&rdquo\; into the heads of past actors\, and historiographic hindsight is confronted with questions about the legitimacy of anachronistic and presentist (re-)descriptions of the past.
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This talk will offer a compatibilist approach to the question of hindsight and insight\, based on informational epistemology and a coherentist understanding of the justification of historiographic claims. This means there is no need to choose categorically between the perspectives\, although there is a sense in which hindsight is prior to insight\, as I will argue.

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