Theories of history : readings from classical and contemporary sources /
Series: The Free Press textbooks in philosophy Edition statement:3rd printing. Published by : Free Press, (Glencoe, Ill. :) Physical details: 549 pages ; 25 cm.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-536).
PHILOSOPHIES OF HISTORY : VICO T0 COLLINGWOOD -- The Interpretation of the Historical Process -- The New Science / Giambattista Vico -- Idea of a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view / Immanuel Kant -- Ideas toward a philosophy of the history of man / Johann Gottfired Herder -- The Progress of the human mind / Antione-Nicolas de Concorcet -- Philosophical history / G.W.F. Hegel -- The Positive philosophy and the study of society / Auguste Comte -- Politics and society / Auguste Comte.
Elucidations of the science of history / John Stuart Mill -- History and the operation of universal laws / Henry Thomas Buckle -- The Materialist conception of history / Karl Marx -- The Inevitable victory of the Proletariat -- The Role of the individual in history / Georgi Plekhanov -- The Difficulty of defining the forces that move nations / Leo Tolstoy -- The Problem of free will and necessity / Leo Tolstoy -- The World as history / Oswarld Spengler -- The Disintegration of civilizations / Arnold Toynbee -- My view of history / Arnold Toynbee.
The Nature of Historical Knowledge -- The Understanding of other persons and their life-expressions / Wilhelm Dilthey -- History and chronicle / Benedetto Croce -- Historical determinism and the "philosophy of history" / Benedetto Croce -- The Sociology of knowledge / Karl Mannheim -- History as re-enactment of past experience / R.G. Collingwood.
RECENT VIEW CONCERNING HISTORICAL KNOWEDGE AND EXPLANATION -- Critiques of Classical Theories of History -- Prediction and prophecy in the social sciences / Karl R. Popper -- Dialectical materialism / Bertrand Russell -- "Meaning" in history / W.H. Walsh -- Can we know the pattern of the past? A Debate / Pieter Geyl and Arnold Toynbee -- Determinism, relativism, and historical judgments / Isaiah Berlin -- Can history be objective? / Christopher Blake.
Explanation and Laws -- The Function of general laws in history / Carl .G. Hempel -- Historical explanation / Morton White -- Some issues in the logic of historical analysis / Ernest Nagel -- Explanations in history and the genetic sciences / W.B. Gallie -- "Explaining what" in history / William Dray -- Explanation and interpretation in history / Charles Frankel -- Explanation in history / Alan Donagan -- Truisms as the grounds for historical explanations / Michael Scriven.
History and the Social Sciences -- Societal facts / Maurice Mandelbaum -- Holism versus individualism in history and sociology / Ernest Gellner -- Historical explanation in the social sciences / J.W.N. Watkins -- Reply to Mr. Watkins / Ernest Gellner.
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