TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin,Raymond
TI  - The Past Within Us: an Empirical Approach to Philosophy of History
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400860494
AV  - D16.8 
U1  - 901 19
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - fast
KW  - History & Archaeology
KW  - hilcc
KW  - History - General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; 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
N2  - 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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