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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. Ma



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*1. Two Approaches to Philosophy of History, pg. 1*2. Positivism and Its Critics: The Common Assumptions, pg. 16*3. Explanatory Competition, pg. 30*4. Causal Weighting, pg. 53*5. Conceptual and Empirical Subjectivism, pg. 85*6. Modest Empirical Subjectivism, pg. 105*Appendix: Historical Counterexamples, pg. 127*Notes, pg. 141*Bibliography, pg. 153*Index, pg. 161

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691603964, 978-0691603964
      ISBN10: 0691603960
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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. Ma



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*1. Two Approaches to Philosophy of History, pg. 1*2. Positivism and Its Critics: The Common Assumptions, pg. 16*3. Explanatory Competition, pg. 30*4. Causal Weighting, pg. 53*5. Conceptual and Empirical Subjectivism, pg. 85*6. Modest Empirical Subjectivism, pg. 105*Appendix: Historical Counterexamples, pg. 127*Notes, pg. 141*Bibliography, pg. 153*Index, pg. 161

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