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Robin George Collingwood

Publications -  55
Citations -  5150

Robin George Collingwood is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ancient Rome & Roman Empire. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 54 publications receiving 5109 citations.

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The idea of history

TL;DR: In this article, R. G. Collingwood considers how the modern idea of history has grown up from the time of Herodotus to the present day, and how history is not contained in books and documents, it lives only as a present interest and pursuit, in the mind of the historian when he criticizes and interprets those documents, and by so doing relives for himself the states of mind into which he inquires'.
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The Principles of Art

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill, magic, and amusement.
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An essay on metaphysics

TL;DR: The authors The Function of Metaphysics in Civilization in Civilization (1938) Notes for an Essay on Logic (1939) and An ESSAY ON METAPHYSICS (1940)
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The Principles of Art

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill, magic, and amusement.
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The idea of nature

TL;DR: The idea of nature as mentioned in this paper is a theory of philosophical method applied to the problem of the philosophy of nature, and it is divided into four major sections: Introduction, Greek Cosmology, the Renaissance View of Nature, and the Modern View of nature.