Aspects of Mental Time Travel Within Historical Research. Issue 4 (2nd October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: von Petersdorff, Friedrich
• Is Part Of: Australasian philosophical review. Volume 1:Issue 4(2017)
• Page Start: 444
• Page End: 449
• Publication Date: 2017-10-02
• Subjects: Collingwood -- epistemology of history -- Ganeri -- mental time travel -- Ricœur -- temporality; Philosophy -- Periodicals; 101
• DOI: 10.1080/24740500.2017.1411146
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2474-0500

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Although the concept of mental time travel refers to autonoetic consciousness (that is, consciousness of one's own past), I argue that it should prove worthwhile to analyse the apparent similarities between mental time travel and historical operations undertaken by historians in their attempt to understand the autonoetic consciousness of historical agents. I, therefore, analyse arguments presented by R.G. Collingwood as well as by Paul Ricœur, and then reconsider the result hereof within the context of Jonardon Ganeri's [2018] analysis of mental time travel, thereby intending to further outline the scope and the limits of the concept of mental time travel.