The Past Within Us : an Empirical Approach to Philosophy of History.
Why do we interpret the past as we do, rather than in some other way or not at all? What is the significance of the fact that we interpret the past? What are historical interpretations? Raymond Martin's approach to these questions transcends both the positivist and humanistic perspectives that...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=791215 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Two Approaches to Philosophy of History; 2. Positivism and Its Critics: The Common Assumptions; 3. Explanatory Competition; 4. Causal Weighting; 5. Conceptual and Empirical Subjectivism; 6. Modest Empirical Subjectivism; Appendix: Historical Counterexamples; Notes; Bibliography; Index