
Georg Gangl
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Georg Gangl
@GanglGeorg
Philosopher of historiography @cpshoulu. Likes narrative, evidence, and evidence-based narrative. Versucht, "auch einmal auf dem Kopfe zu gehen" (Hegel).




New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Truthmakers for Historiographic Counterfactuals" that Michael Woundy gave in our research seminar back here: youtu.be/xBtgn4YYGeA?si…. Happy watching!




Our joint research seminar PHO2 will continue today in two weeks (16.04) with Michael Woundy (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminar, USA) speaking about "Truthmakers for Historiographic Counterfactuals". Save the date, and more information soon!

New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "The Historiography of the Former Soviet Bloc: Historians’ parallel concerns with the totalitarianism framework and their varied normative commitments" that Manuela Ungureanu gave with us here: youtube.com/watch?v=uB2wpi….




Today in two week (26.03), our research seminar will continue with Manuela Ungureanu speaking on "The Historiography of the Former Soviet Bloc: Historians’ parallel concerns with the totalitarianism framework and their varied normative commitments". Save the date&more info soon!

We proudly present the spring edition of our joint research seminar PHO2. The seminar will run from March to June with five events in total. For more information, please see below. Save the dates, and come and join us to discuss some philosophy of history!



Tomorrow (29.01, 16h/17h, Central European/Finnish time), Herman Paul will give the talk "The Return of Truth in an Age of Post-Truth: What Historical Theorists Can Do" in our research seminar. For more info and the Zoom link, please see: oulu.fi/en/events/retu…. All welcome!


Today in two weeks (29.01), Herman Paul (Leiden University, The Netherlands) will give the talk "Epistemic Success in Historical Studies: Truth, Truthfulness, and 'Truer Than'" in our joined research seminar PHO2. Save the date, and more information to follow soon!

New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Reading in Historiography and Iterative Measurement: Atheism, Forgery, Cannibalism and Deification" that Fons Dewulf gave in our joint research seminar here: youtube.com/watch?v=7acshV…. Happy watching and holidays, everyone!

Tomorrow (18.12, 13/14h, Central European/Finnish time), Fons Dewulf will give the talk "Reading in Historiography and Iterative Measurement: Atheism, Forgery, Cannibalism and Deification" in our joint research seminar. For more info & Zoom link: oulu.fi/en/events/read….


