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Dr C. Behan McCullagh

 

Position Research Associate
Room: Hu2, 208
Tel: +61 3 9479 2442
Fax: +61 3 9479 3639
Email: b.mccullagh@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications: B.A. (Syd.), M.A., Ph.D. (Camb.)
Research Interests
  • Moral Psychology
  • Philosophy of love and hate
  • The nature of emotions
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Problems in Judaeo-Christian theology
  • Philosophy of the Social Sciences
  • Historical understanding
  • Understanding social change

 

Publications

BOOKS

The Logic of History (Routledge, London, 2004) pp. ix, 211.
ISBN: hardback: 0-415-22398-9; paperback: 0-415-22399-7

The Truth of History (Routledge, London, 1998) Cloth and paperback, pp.viii, 327. ISBN: hardback: 0-415-17110-5; paperback: 0-415-17111-3

Justifying Historical Descriptions (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 1984) pp.252. ISBN: hardback 0 521 26722 6; paperback: 0 521 31830

ARTICLES

"Colligation", A Companion to Philosophy of History and Historiography, Blackwell, forthcoming.

"Can religious beliefs be justified pragmatically?" Sophia (2007), forthcoming.

"Postmodernism and the truth of history", Historically Speaking VI.3 (2005), 8-10.

"What do historians argue about?", History and Theory, 43 (2004), 18-38.

" Theories of historical explanation (philosophical aspects)", International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences (Pergamon, 2001).

"Understanding history", in Essays in Honor of Burleigh Wilkins. From History to Justice, ed. A. Jokie (Peter Lang, 2001), pp.95-114.

"Bias in historical description, interpretation and explanation", History and Theory, 39 (2000), 39-66.

"The structure and objectivity of historical narratives", Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, vol. VIII (Philosophy Documentation Center, 2000).

"Metaphor and truth in history", Clio, 23 (1993), 23-49.

"Evil and the love of God", Sophia, 31 (1992), 48-60.

"Can our understanding of old texts be objective?" History and Theory, 30 (1991), 302-323.

"How objective interests explain actions", Social Science Information, 30 (1991), 29-54.

"The rationality of emotions and emotional behaviour", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 68 (1990), 44-58.

"The unifying themes of historical narratives", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 19 (1989), 55-74.

"Theology of atonement", Theology, 91 (1988), 392-400.

"The virtue of cognitive relativism", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 66 (1988), 101-4.

"The relations between symbols and what they symbolize", Social Science Information, 27 (1988), 295-307.

"The truth of historical narratives", History and Theory, Beiheft 26 (1987), 30-46.

"The intelligibility of cognitive relativism", The Monist, 67 (1984), 327-40.

"Historical realism", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 40 (1980), 420-5.

"Colligation and classification in history", History and Theory, 17 (1978), 267-84.

"The nature of historical inferences", Rervue Internationale de Philosophie, 121-2 (1977), 351-9.

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