The main questions that guide my research can be summarized as follows: How exactly is the past constructed? Why can we have many interpretations of a single historical event? What type of meaning-making activity is history? How can we evaluate historical discourses? Which normative criteria that apply to historiography have features in common with science or art? How is narrative present in historical discourses? What type of epistemic tools do historians use?
Others have explored how the past is constructed. My approach is different and innovative because it brings into communion not only different areas in philosophy–like epistemology, aesthetics, value theory– but also different disciplines such as literary theory, psychology, and, of course, history. The approach that I defend is also different because it aims at understanding the underlying principles of the human mind that allow us to structure and give meaning to events in time.