What and the Why of History: Philosophical Essays: 15 (Philosophy of History and Culture) 9004103082, 9789004103085

The What and the Why of History deals with history as a cognitive discipline concerned to establish justifiable knowledg

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English Pages 352 [368] Year 1996

Table of contents :
Cover
0_Frontmatter
1_Introduction_page_ix
2_Acknowledgements_page_xiv
4_1_Evidence_and_Events_in_History_page_3
5_2_Disposition_Concepts_and_History_page_28
6_3_Theory_in_History_page_33
7_4_Ideals_of_Order_History_and_Sociology_page_58
8_5_Historical_Explanation_and_the_Close_of_Inquiry_page_81
10_6_A_Note_on_the_Status_of_Historical_Reconstructions_page_95
11_7_The_Alleged_Futurity_of_Yesterday_page_102
12_8_Historical_Realism_The_Ground_of_Carl_Becker_s_Scepticism_page_106
13_9_A_Note_on_Historical_Interpretation_page_119
14_10_Epistemic_Attitudes_and_History_page_130
15_11_History_and_the_Primacy_of_Knowing_page_143
16_12_Toward_a_Logic_of_Historical_Constitution_page_171
17_13_Impediments_to_Epistemology_in_the_Philosophy_of_History_page_207
18_14_Historical_Being_page_231
19_15_The_Past_of_Our_Present_page_243
20_16_The_Sociological_Historiography_of_Charles_Tilly_page_254
22_17_Collingwood_s_Theory_of_Historical_Knowing_page_273
23_18_Collingwood_on_the_Constitution_of_the_Historical_Past_page_312
24_19_The_Idea_of_History_as_a_Scale_of_Forms_page_337
25_Index_page_349

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