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The Past Within Us : an Empirical Approach to Philosophy of History

Author
Martin, Raymond, 1941-
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
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1 online resource (178 pages).
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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
Summary
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 have polarized Anglo-American philosophy of history. Martin goes to the source of this polarization by diagnosing a deep-seated flaw in the dominant analytic approach during the period from 1935 to 1975, namely, the emphasis on conceptual analysis rather than the examination of actual historical contr.
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9781400860494 (electronic bk.)
1400860490 (electronic bk.)
9781322026664
1322026661
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Cover; Contents.
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