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

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Martin, Raymond

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TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (178 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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9781400860494
1400860490
9781322026664
1322026661

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Past Within Us : An Empirical Approach to Philosophy of History.DDC classification:

901 19

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D16.8

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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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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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